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GOOD-BYE

, proud world! I 'm going home:

Thou art not my friend, and I 'm not thine.

Long through thy weary crowds I roam;

A river-ark on the ocean brine,

Long I 've been tossed like the driven foam;

But now, proud world! I 'm going home.

Good-bye to Flattery's fawning face;

To Grandeur with his wise grimace;

To upstart Wealth's averted eye;

To supple Office, low and high;

To crowded halls, to court and street;

To frozen hearts and hasting feet;

To those who go, and those who come;

Good-bye, proud world! I 'm going home.

I am going to my own hearth-stone,

Bosomed in yon green hills alone,—

A secret nook in a pleasant land,

Whose groves the frolic fairies planned;

Where arches green, the livelong day,

Echo the blackbird's roundelay,