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Song Of Parting

By James Whitcomb Riley

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Say farewell, and let me go;      Shatter every vow!     All the future can bestow      Will be welcome now!         And if this fair hand I touch         I have worshipped overmuch,         It was my mistake - and so,         Say farewell, and let me go.     Say farewell, and let me go:      Murmur no regret,     Stay your tear-drops ere they flow -      Do not waste them yet!         They might pour as pours the rain,         And not wash away the pain:         I have tried them and I know. -         Say farewell, and let me go.     Say farewell, and let me go:      Think me not untrue -     True as truth is, even so      I am true to you!         If the ghost of love may stay         Where my fond heart dies to-day,         I am with you alway - so,         Say farewell, and let me go.

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About James Whitcomb Riley

James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) was an American poet known as the "Hoosier Poet." His dialect poems—including "Little Orphant Annie" and "When the Frost Is on the Punkin"—celebrate rural Indiana life and childhood nostalgia.

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