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When eyes are beaming What never tongue might tell, When tears are streaming From their crystal cell: When hands are link’d that dread to part, And heart is met by throbbing heart. Oh! bitter, bitter is the smart Of them that bid Farewell! When hope is chidden, That fain of bliss would tell, And love forbidden In the breast to dwell: When fettered by a viewless chain, We turn and gaze, and turn again; Oh! death were mercy to the pain Of them that bid Farewell.
When eyes are beaming What never tongue might tell, When tears are streaming From their crystal cell: When hands are link’d that dread to part, And heart is met by throbbing heart. Oh! bitter, bitter is the smart Of them that bid Farewell! When hope is chidden, That fain of bliss would tell, And love forbidden In the breast to dwell: When fettered by a viewless chain, We turn and gaze, and turn again; Oh! death were mercy to the pain Of them that bid Farewell.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Bishop Heber (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 218 · printed citation: Bishop Heber · subject: FAREWELL
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