Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 32. LEAVE-TAKING, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER


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TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 32. LEAVE-TAKING, by                    
First Line: Leave-takings are but sadness wasted, quite
Last Line: Be true to self, and love thy fellow men.
Subject(s): Farewell; Parting


Leave-takings are but sadness wasted, quite,
We meet in life, we part in death, and yet
Our parting is but passing in the night
And never should we this sweet thought forget;
That night-time passes, and the rising sun
Proclaims another day in which we meet,
Each radiant with a new life just begun,
A life where we renew our friendship sweet.

I also am a servant and have work
Which I must do,—my Father now commands
That I depart and go where troubles lurk
Help bind again the parted, broken strands
Of love and hope. Good bye, my friend, good bye.
I shall return in God's own time; till then
With all the noblest thoughts in life comply,
Be true to self, and love thy fellow men.





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