And when life’s long day is closing,
Oh! how pleasant it would be;
On some faithful heart reposing
In the Cottage by the Sea.
In the Cottage by the Sea, &c.
Ben Fisher and Wife.
Copied by permission of Firth, Pond, & Co., 547 Broadway, N. Y., publishers of the music.
Ben Fisher had finish’d his hard day’s work,
And he sat at his cottage door;