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Rh Widely and far are parted now: severed are friendship's bands; Some are away in the distant West, and some in other lands ; Some dear eyes we have closed in rest, and folded some weary hands. We turn again to those early days when the path grows before, And we cry again aloud, "Come back again, O halcyon days of yore!" And they send but a doleful requiem back, the echo of " Never more."