At Parting.How tender the ties that thus bind, When years have flown fast since we parted, When the past is again brought to mind. How we love to tell over the stories Of happenings__long in the past, And drift once again back to childhood But the parting must come at the last. Goodbye! Can we say it at parting? How it brings the sad tears to our eyes, How we try to choke down our emotions, How the thoughts from our bosoms arise, And we fain would steal off without trying But write the fond words we would say, For the tenderest ties of a lifetime Are once again broken today. __Ed Blair. |
Kansas Zephyrs
Ed Blair
(Madison, Wis: The American Thresherman. 1901)
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