Good-Bye.
(To Miss E E.) I cannot write, my tears are flowing fast, Yet weeping is unnatural to me; Oh! that this hour of bitterness was past-- The parting hour with all I love and thee If I had never met or loved thee so, To part would not have caused me this sharp pain; Parting so oft occurring here below, And they who part so seldom meet again. Yet over land or sea, where'er I go, My home, my friends, shall flit before my eyes-- And oft I anxiously shall wish to know, If in thy bosom thoughts of me arise. Oh, I will think of bygone days of glee, Though on each point of bitter sorrow driven; I will not bid thee to remember me, But oh! see to it that we meet in Heaven. 1844.
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