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Lines written by the late A L Gordon	A
On th August	B
Being three days before he sailed for Australia	C
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Across the trackless seas I go	D
No matter when or where	E
And few my future lot will know	D
And fewer still will care	E
My hopes are gone my time is spent	F
I little heed their loss	G
And if I cannot feel content	F
I cannot feel remorse	H
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My parents bid me cross the flood	I
My kindred frowned at me	J
They say I have belied my blood	I
And stained my pedigree	J
But I must turn from those who chide	K
And laugh at those who frown	L
I cannot quench my stubborn pride	K
Nor keep my spirits down	L
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I once had talents fit to win	M
Success in life's career	N
And if I chose a part of sin	M
My choice has cost me dear	N
But those who brand me with disgrace	O
Will scarcely dare to say	P
They spoke the taunt before my face	O
And went unscathed away	P
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My friends will miss a comrade's face	O
And pledge me on the seas	Q
Who shared the wine cup or the chase	O
Or follies worse than these	Q
A careless smile a parting glass	R
A hand that waves adieu	S
And from my sight they soon will pass	R
And from my memory too	S
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I loved a girl not long ago	D
And till my suit was told	T
I thought her breast as fair as snow	D
'Twas very near as cold	T
And yet I spoke with feelings more	U
Of recklessness than pain	V
Those words I never spoke before	U
Nor never shall again	W
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Her cheek grew pale in her dark eye	X
I saw the tear drop shine	Y
Her red lips faltered in reply	X
And then were pressed to mine	Y
A quick pulsation of the heart	Z
A flutter of the breath	A2
A smothered sob and thus we part	Z
To meet no more till death	A2
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And yet I may at times recall	B2
Her memory with a sigh	X
At times for me the tears may fall	B2
And dim her sparkling eye	X
But absent friends are soon forgot	C2
And in a year or less	D2
'Twill doubtless be another's lot	C2
Those very lips to press	D2
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With adverse fate we best can cope	E2
When all we prize has fled	F2
And where there's little left to hope	E2
There's little left to dread	F2
Oh time glides ever quickly by	X
Destroying all that's dear	N
On earth there's little worth a sigh	X
And nothing worth a tear	E
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What fears have I What hopes in life	G2
What joys can I command	H2
A few short years of toil and strife	G2
In a strange and distant land	H2
When green grass sprouts above this clay	P
And that might be ere long	I2
Some friends may read these lines and say	P
The world has judged him wrong	I2
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There is a spot not far away	P
Where my young sister sleeps	J2
Who seems alive but yesterday	P
So fresh her memory keeps	J2
For we have played in childhood there	E
Beneath the hawthorn's bough	K2
And bent our knee in childish prayer	E
I cannot utter now	K2
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Of late so reckless and so wild	L2
That spot recalls to me	J
That I was once a laughing child	L2
As innocent as she	J
And there while August's wild flow'rs wave	M2
I wandered all alone	N2
Strewed blossoms on her little grave	M2
And knelt beside the stone	N2
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I seem to have a load to bear	E
A heavy choking grief	O2
Could I have forced a single tear	E
I might have felt relief	O2
I think my hot and restless heart	Z
Has scorched the channels dry	X
From which those sighs of sorrow start	Z
To moisten cheek and eye	X
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Sister farewell farewell once more	U
To every youthful tie	X
Friends parents kinsmen native shore	U
To each and all good bye	X
And thoughts which for the moment seem	P2
To bind me with a spell	Q2
Ambitious hope love's boyish dream	P2
To you a last farewell	Q2

Adam Lindsay Gordon

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