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A FAREWELL, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Only in my deep heart I love you, sweetest heart
Last Line: Until that dawn, dear heart, good-night, good-night.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Heaven; Dead, The; Parting; Paradise


ONLY in my deep heart I love you, sweetest heart.
Many another vesture hath the soul, I pray
Call me not forth from this. If from the light I part
Only with clay I cling unto the clay.

And ah! my bright companion, you and I must go
Our ways, unfolding lonely glories, not our own,
Nor from each other gathered, but an inward glow
Breathed by the Lone One on the seeker lone.

If for the heart's own sake we break the heart, we may
When the last ruby drop dissolves in diamond light
Meet in a deeper vesture in another day.
Until that dawn, dear heart, good-night, good-night.





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