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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8172, 30 June 1906, Page 3

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GOOD-BYE.

By Mr M, Forrest.

So you want me to say good-bye to you, For a foolish past seems wrong; And Somebody's eyea are so freshly blue, And Somebody's arm is strong: And botnebody's loving is something new, For we have been friends so long! Well—lo yoa remember the ringbarked plain, The swish of the culvert's tide, Wbenjfche Rallies were running after rainThe place where the banks were wide— And a joy bo great that it hurts like pain, And you and I—side by side? Will yoa take him there where the waters are, Where under the logs they slip, Light with the tremble of. many a star, And nark where the willows dip? Will you teach how a fate can make or mar By the laugh on a woman's lip. Will you show him the moon on Dingo Plain, Where the skeleton ' trees stand bare? Will you whisper the story o'er again That onoe made my life so fair 1 Will never a thought of ma bring pain, Kemembering days that were? So you Want me to say' good-bye to you, For life sings a different song; And Somebody's eyea are so fondly ' bine, And Somebody's arms are strong; And c Somebody*s lote is . . something tiew r . . . My love bas-been love so long!