ONLY GOOD-BY.
By Laura C. Ford,
Well, then, good-by ; but not a last goodby ; We may not read the future you and I. Our hands you know are powerless to raise The mystic curtain from the coming days. Thank God, He hides from us that vague before ; I could not live and know we'd meet no more. 'Tvvas very sweet, that dreamful past of ours, That golden Summer with its gorgeous flowers; Those brilliant birds, so swift winged in their flight, That dazzled even as they passed from sight. Yet would 1 perish, fed on memory's
store ; ' I could not live and know we'd meet no more.
Then let us simply say good-by, my friend, And with that word let this, our parting, end. For sure 'twould cost a useless pang to cast A deeper shadow by that hateful " last." Though each go lonely down the dim before,
Oh, leave the hope that we may meet once more.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 336, 7 October 1879, Page 3
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158ONLY GOOD-BY. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 336, 7 October 1879, Page 3
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