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When you go away, my friend, / When we say our last good-bye, / Then the summer time will end, / And the winter will be nigh. / Though the green grass decks the heather, / And the birds sing all the day, / There will be no summer weather, / After you have gone away.
When I look into your eyes, / I shall thrill with sharpest pain; / Thinking that beneath the skies, / I may never look again. / You will feel a moment's sorrow -- / I shall feel a lasting grief; / You forgetting on the morrow -- / I, to mourn with no relief
When we say the last, sad words, / And you are no longer near, / All the winds, and all the birds, / Can not keep the summer here. / Life will lose its full completeness, / Lose it, not for you, but me; / All the beauty and the sweetness / Earth can hold, I shall not see.