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First Line: With you a part of me hath passed away
Last Line: What I keep of you, or you rob from me.
Variant Title(s): For Those Once Mine
Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Potter, Warwick (1872-1893); Dead, The


With you a part of me hath passed away;
For in the peopled forest of my mind
A tree made leafless by this wintry wind
Shall never don again its green array.
Chapel and fireside, country road and bay,
Have something of their friendliness resigned;
Another, if I would, I could not find,
And I am grown much older in a day.
But yet I treasure in my memory
Your gift of charity, and young heart's ease,
And the dear honour of your amity;
For these once mine, my life is rich with these.
And I scarce know which part may greater be, --
What I keep of you, or you rob from me.






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