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by Arthur A. Penn (1875 - 1941)

Smilin' through
Language: English 
There's a little brown road windin' over the hill
To a little white cot by the sea:
There's a little green gate at whose trellis I wait,
While two eyes of blue come smilin' through
At me!

There's a grey lock or two in the brown of the hair;
There's some silver in mine, too, I see;
But in all the long years, when the clouds brought their tears,
Those two eyes of blue kept smilin' through
At me!

And if ever I'm left in this world all alone 
I shall wait for my call patiently 
For if Heaven be kind I shall wake there to find
Those two eyes of blue still smilin' through
At me!

Text Authorship:

  • by Arthur A. Penn (1875 - 1941) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Arthur A. Penn (1875 - 1941), "Smilin' through", published 1918. [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Researcher for this page: Ted Perry

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 15
Word count: 117

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