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When the apples are all gathered, And the chestnut trees are bare; When there's frost upon the garden, And a chillness in the air, While a breath of early winter

Finds the meadows brown and sere, Comes the welcome time for keeping Glad the Halloweven cheer.

I recall when I, a laddie, With a band of comrades bold, Played such pranks as older people Little less than crime would hold. Gates there were that wanted owners, Signboards scattered far and hear, After we had kept at midnight Thus the Halloweven cheer.

'Twas an autumn night and cloudless, With a full moon in the sky, That I won love's precious promise From my sweetheart, fair and shy. She had heard the mystic wisdom Of the waters of the meer; There she sought her lover's picture 'Mid the Halloweven cheer.

Seeing her I quickly hastened From the shadow of the wood And, reflected in the water, She beheld me where I stood. Then I told the olden story In love's language, low and clear; Asked the hand the fates had pledged me 'Mid the Halloweven cheer.