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Walking to-day on the Common, / I heard a stranger say / To a friend who was standing near him, / "Do you know I am going away? " / I had never seen their faces: / May never see them again, / But the words the stranger uttered, / Stirred me with nameless pain.
For I knew some heart would miss him, / Would ache at his "going away," / And the earth would seem all cheerless, / For many and many a day. / No matter how glad my spirit, / No matter how light my heart, / If I hear these two words uttered, / The tear drops always start.