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Edith Nesbit - A Good-Bye
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FAREWELL! How soon unmeasured distance rolls 
Its leaden clouds between our parted souls! 
How little to each other now are we-- 
And once how much I dreamed we two might be! 
I, who now stand with eyes undimmed and dry 
                To say good-bye-- 


To say good-bye to all sweet memories, 
Good-bye to tender questions, soft replies; 
Good bye to hope, good-bye to dreaming too, 
Good-bye to all things dear--good-bye to you, 
Without a kiss, a tear, a prayer, a sigh-- 
                Our last good-bye. 


I had no chain to bind you with at all; 
No grace to charm, no beauty to enthral; 
No power to hold your eyes with mine, and make 
Your heart on fire with longing for my sake, 
Till all the yearning passed into one cry: 
                `Love, not good-bye!` 


Ah, no--I had no strength like that, you know; 
Yet my worst weakness was to love you so! 
So much too well--so much too well--or ill-- 
Yet even that might have been pardoned still-- 
It would have been had I been you--you I! 
                But now--good-bye! 


How soon the bitter follows on the sweet! 
Could I not chain your fancy`s flying feet? 
Could I not hold your soul--to make you play 
To-morrow in the key of yesterday--? 
Dear--do you dream that I would stoop to try? 
                Ah, no--Good-bye!
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