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Exile

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By the sad waters of separation     Where we have wandered by divers ways,     I have but the shadow and imitation     Of the old memorial days.     In music I have no consolation,     No roses are pale enough for me;     The sound of the waters of separation     Surpasseth roses and melody.     By the sad waters of separation     Dimly I hear from an hidden place     The sigh of mine ancient adoration:     Hardly can I remember your face.     If you be dead, no proclamation     Sprang to me over the waste, gray sea:     Living, the waters of separation     Sever for ever your soul from me.     No man knoweth our desolation;     Memory pales of the old delight;     While the sad waters of separation     Bear us on to the ultimate night.

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