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Answered.

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Good-bye - yes, I am going.          Sudden? Well, you are right;              But a startling truth came home to me          With sudden force last night.              What is it? Shall I tell you?          Nay, that is why I go.              I am running away from the battlefield          Turning my back on the foe.              Riddles? You think me cruel!          Have you not been most kind?              Why, when you question me like that,          What answer can I find?              You fear you failed to amuse me,          Your husband's friend and guest,              Whom he bade you entertain and please -          Well, you have done your best.              Then why am I going?          A friend of mine abroad,              Whose theories I have been acting upon,          Has proven himself a fraud.              You have heard me quote from Plato          A thousand times no doubt;              Well, I have discovered he did not know          What he was talking about.              You think I am speaking strangely?          You cannot understand?              Well, let me look down into your eyes,          And let me take your hand.              I am running away from danger;          I am flying before I fall;              I am going because with heart and soul          I love you - that is all.              There, now you are white with anger;          I knew it would be so.              You should not question a man too close          When he tells you he must go.

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