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Good-ByeGood-Bye
Good-Bye
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,
And vulgar feet have never trod
A spot that is sacred to thought and God.
O, when I am safe in my sylvan home,
I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome;
And when I am stretched beneath the pines,
Where the evening star so holy shines,
I laugh at the lore and the pride of man,
At the sophist schools and the learned clan;
For what are they all, in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet?
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