All Things Human

Before Exile
by Louise Mack (1870-1935)
Here is my last good-bye,
   This side the sea.
Good-bye! good-bye! good-bye!
   Love me, remember me.
This is my last good-bye,
   This side the sea.
I bless, I pledge, I cling,
   Love me, remember me.
This is my last good-bye
   To each dear tree,
To every silent plain,
   Love me, remember me.
This is my last good-bye,
   This side the sea.
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Last Lines
by Anne Bront

Song of the Rain
by Hugh McCrae (1876-1958)
Night,
and the yellow pleasure of candle-light….
old brown books and the kind, fine face of the clock
fogged in the veils of the fire