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Description and Notes
written and composed by Stephen Collins Foster.
For voice and piano, with additional chorus refrain.
Caption title.
Copyright records indicate Jan. 17, 1855 as actual date of copyright.
Firth, Pond & Co. was at this address from 1856 until 1862. Cf. Early American sheet music / Dichter and Shapiro.
Verses 3-4 printed as text on p. 4.
Price mark 2 1/2 in five-pointed star.
The words "piano" and "guitar" appear on t.p.
First line of text: Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears.
First line of chorus: 'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary.
Foster Hall Collection cutter no.: 207.23.
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864. Songs. Selections (Foster's melodies) ; no. 28.