A GOOD-BYE
“Good-bye, my friend!”He takes her hand—The pressures blend:They understandBut vaguely why, with drooping eye,Each moans—“Good-bye!—Good-bye!”“Dear friend, good-bye!”O she could smileIf she might cryA little while!—She says, “Ioughtto smile—but I—Forgive me—There!—Good-bye!”“‘Good-bye?’ Ah, no:I hate,” says he,“These ‘good-byes’ so!”“AndI,” says she,“Detest them so—why, I shoulddieWere this areal‘good-bye!’”
“Good-bye, my friend!”He takes her hand—The pressures blend:They understandBut vaguely why, with drooping eye,Each moans—“Good-bye!—Good-bye!”“Dear friend, good-bye!”O she could smileIf she might cryA little while!—She says, “Ioughtto smile—but I—Forgive me—There!—Good-bye!”“‘Good-bye?’ Ah, no:I hate,” says he,“These ‘good-byes’ so!”“AndI,” says she,“Detest them so—why, I shoulddieWere this areal‘good-bye!’”
“Good-bye, my friend!”He takes her hand—The pressures blend:They understandBut vaguely why, with drooping eye,Each moans—“Good-bye!—Good-bye!”
“Good-bye, my friend!”
He takes her hand—
The pressures blend:
They understand
But vaguely why, with drooping eye,
Each moans—“Good-bye!—Good-bye!”
“Dear friend, good-bye!”O she could smileIf she might cryA little while!—She says, “Ioughtto smile—but I—Forgive me—There!—Good-bye!”
“Dear friend, good-bye!”
O she could smile
If she might cry
A little while!—
She says, “Ioughtto smile—but I—
Forgive me—There!—Good-bye!”
“‘Good-bye?’ Ah, no:I hate,” says he,“These ‘good-byes’ so!”“AndI,” says she,“Detest them so—why, I shoulddieWere this areal‘good-bye!’”
“‘Good-bye?’ Ah, no:
I hate,” says he,
“These ‘good-byes’ so!”
“AndI,” says she,
“Detest them so—why, I shoulddie
Were this areal‘good-bye!’”