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TO THE PARTED ONE by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

First Line: AND THOU ART NOW NO LONGER NEAR!
Last Line: O, COME TO ME AGAIN, DEAR LOVE.
Subject(s): ABSENCE; LOVE; SEPARATION; ISOLATION;
AND thou art now no longer near!
From me, O fairest, thou hast flown!
Nor rings in my accustomed ear
A single word—a single tone.

As when, at morn, the wanderer's eye
Pierces the air in vain to see
Where, hidden in the deep-blue sky,
High up the lark goes singing free,—

So wanders anxiously my gaze
Piercing the field, the bush, the grove;
On thee still call my frequent lays:
O, come to me again, dear love.



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