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First Line: Let this goodbye of ours - this last goodbye
Last Line: And cast away their key to paradise
Subject(s): Farewell; Parting


Let this good-bye of ours -- this last good-bye --
Be still and splendid like a forest tree;
Or like the hands of Silence holding up
The blue and burning corners of the sea.

Let there be one grand look within our eyes,
Built of the wonderment of these past years;
Too vast a thing of beauty to be lost
In quivering lips and burning floods of tears.

Back to the chaos of the world, we go
Shining with one sweet secret no one knows;
Crutches of dreams to help us on our path,
From snow to tender petaling of the rose.

So in places we lift high our heads,
That none may find within our calm, clear eyes
The secret that two travelers have returned,
And cast away their key to Paradise.





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