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First Line: Traveller, who goest on this western road
Last Line: Then pause to hear his sigh among the leaves.


Traveller, who goest on this western road
That runs beyond the sunset and the hills,
A lover asks thee this: When thou dost come
Unto the river, where the pine tree stands,
There at the ford, beside the happy waves;
Whether the sun or stars be mirrored there,
And thou gone forth or nearing thy sweet home,
Make thou this prayer -- May the hard fates be kind
To one whose fairest days were here, who once
Along these lovely sands beneath the moon
Walked with the love that now is false to him.
Then pause to hear his sigh among the leaves.





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