Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, "FAREWELL, FAREWELL, FOND LOVE", by ANONYMOUS


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"FAREWELL, FAREWELL, FOND LOVE", by                    
First Line: "farewell, farewell, fond love, under whose childish whip"
Last Line: "the hollow echo shall reply, 'tis I.' farewell, farewell"
Subject(s): Farewell; Parting


FAREWELL, farewell, fond love, under whose childish whip
I have served out a weary 'prenticeship.
Farewell, thou that hast made me thy scorned property,
To dote on those that lovéd not,
And to fly those that wooéd me:
Go, bane of my content, and practise on some other patient.

My woeful monument shall be a cell
The murmur of the purling brook, my knell;
And for my epitaph the rocks shall groan
Eternally: if any ask this stone,
What wretched thing doth in this compass lie,
The hollow Echo shall reply, ' 'Tis I, 'tis I',
The hollow Echo shall reply, ' 'Tis I.'
Farewell, farewell.





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