Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SLUM-CHILD, by PATRICK MACGILL


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First Line: There is meeting and parting
Last Line: One loving friend.
Subject(s): Friendship


THERE is meeting and parting
The wide world over,
Day by day,
Of true hearts and fond hearts,
The maid and the lover,
And thus alway.

But never a parting
Will give me sorrow,
And never comes
The hope of the friends
I'll meet to-morrow —
I'm of the slums.

Day and night are forever
So dreary:
I never know
Aught of a friend,
When the heart is weary
To let him know.

But often I pray when the
Night is gloomy,
That God would send,
In all His mercy, from
Heaven to me,
One loving friend.





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