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A youth went forth to exile from a home	A
Such as to early thought gives images	B
The longest treasur'd and most oft recall'd	C
And brightest kept of love a mountain home	A
That with the murmur of its rocking pines	D
And sounding waters first in childhood's heart	E
Wakes the deep sense of nature unto joy	F
And half unconscious prayer a Grecian home	A
With the transparence of blue skies o'erhung	G
And through the dimness of its olive shades	H
Catching the flash of fountains and the gleam	I
Of shining pillars from the fanes of old	J
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And this was what he left Yet many leave	K
Far more the glistening eye that first from theirs	L
Call'd out the soul's bright smile the gentle hand	M
Which through the sunshine led forth infant steps	N
To where the violets lay the tender voice	O
That earliest taught them what deep melody	P
Lives in affection's tones He left not these	Q
Happy the weeper that but weeps to part	E
With all a mother's love A bitterer grief	R
Was his To part unlov'd of her unlov'd	S
That should have breath'd upon his heart like Spring	G
Fostering its young faint flowers	T
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Yet had he friends	U
And they went forth to cheer him on his way	V
Unto the parting spot and she too went	W
That mother tearless for her youngest born	X
The parting spot was reach'd a lone deep glen	Y
Holy perchance of yore for cave and fount	W
Were there and sweet voiced echoes and above	Z
The silence of the blue still upper Heaven	A2
Hung round the crags of Pindus where they wore	B2
Their crowning snows Upon a reck he sprung	G
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The unbelov'd one for his home to gaze	C2
Through the wild laurels back but then a light	W
Broke on the stern proud sadness of his eye	D2
A sudden quivering light and from his lips	E2
A burst of passionate song	G
'Farewell farewell	F2
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'I hear thee O thou rushing stream thou 'rt from my native dell	F2
Thou 'rt bearing thence a mournful sound a murmur of farewell	F2
And fare thee well flow on my stream flow on thou bright and free	P
I do but dream that in thy voice one tone laments for me	P
But I have been a thing unlov'd from childhood's loving years	G2
And therefore turns my soul to thee for thou hast known my tears	L
The mountains and the caves and thou my secret tears have known	H2
The woods can tell where he hath wept that ever wept alone	H2
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'I see thee once again my home thou 'rt there amidst thy vines	D
And clear upon thy gleaming roof the light of summer shines	D
It is a joyous hour when eve comes whispering through thy groves	I2
The hour that brings the son from toil the hour the mother loves	J2
The hour the mother loves for me belov'd it hath not been	K2
Yet ever in its purple smile thou smil'st a blessed scene	L2
Whose quiet beauty o'er my soul through distant years will come	M2
Yet what but as the dead to thee shall I be then my home	A
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'Not as the dead no not the dead We speak of them we keep	N2
Their names like light that must not fade within our bosoms deep	N2
We hallow ev'n the lyre they touch'd we love the lay they sung	G
We pass with softer step the place they fill'd our band among	G
But I depart like sound like dew like aught that leaves on earth	O2
No trace of sorrow or delight no memory of its birth	O2
I go the echo of the rock a thousand songs may swell	F2
When mine is a forgotten voice Woods mountains home farewell	F2
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'And farewell mother I have borne in lonely silence long	G
But now the current of my soul grows passionate and strong	G
And I will speak though but the wind that wanders through the sky	D2
And but the dark deep rustling pines and rolling streams reply	D2
Yes I will speak within my breast whate'er hath seem'd to be	P
There lay a hidden fount of love that would have gush'd for thee	P
Brightly it would have gush'd but thou my mother thou hast thrown	H2
Back on the forests and the wilds what should have been thine own	H2
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'Then fare thee well I leave thee not in loneliness to pine	P2
Since thou hast sons of statelier mien and fairer brow than mine	P2
Forgive me that thou couldst not love it may be that a tone	H2
Yet from my burning heart may pierce through thine when I am gone	Q2
And thou perchance mayst weep for him on whom thou ne'er hast smil'd	W
And the grave give his birthright back to thy neglected child	W
Might but my spirit then return and 'midst its kindred dwell	F2
And quench its thirst with love's free tears 'tis all a dream farewell '	-
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'Farewell ' the echo died with that deep word	W
Yet died not so the late repentant pang	G
By the strain quicken'd in the mother's breast	W
There had pass'd many changes o'er her brow	R2
And cheek and eye but into one bright flood	W
Of tears at last all melted and she fell	F2
On the glad bosom of her child and cried	W
'Return return my son ' the echo caught	W
A lovelier sound than song and woke again	Y
Murmuring 'Return my son '	-

Felicia Dorothea Hemans

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