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Oh! Willie, is it you, dear, safe, safe at home?

They did not tell me true, dear, they said you would not come,

I heard you at the gate, and it made my heart rejoice,

For I knew that welcome footstep, and that dear familiar voice,

Making music on my ear in the lonely midnight gloom,

Oh! Willie, we have miss’d you; welcome, welcome home.

We’ve long’d to see you nightly, but this night of all;

The fire was blazing brightly, and lights were in the hall,

The little ones were up ’till ’twas ten o’clock and past,

Then their eyes began to twinkle and they have gone to sleep at last;

But they listen’d for your voice till they thought you’d never come,

Oh! Willie, we have miss’d you; welcome, welcome home.

The days were sad without you, the nights long and drear,

My dreams have been about you, oh, welcome, Willie dear,

Last night I wept and watch’d, by the moonlight’s cheerless ray,

Till I thought I heard your footsteps, then I wiped my tears away,

But my heart grew sad again, when I found you had not come;

Oh! Willie, we have missed you; welcome, welcome home.