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GOOD-BYE, good-bye; it is not hard to part! / You have my heart-the heart that leaps to hear / Your name called by an echo in a dream; / You have my soul that, like an untroubled stream, / Reflects your soul that leans so dear, so near- / Your heartbeats set the rhythm for my heart.
What more could Life give if we gave her leave / To give, and Life should give us leave to take? / Only each other's arms, each other's eyes, / Each other's lips, the clinging secrecies / That are but as the written words to make / Records of what the heart and soul achieve.
This, only this we yield, my love, my friend, / To Fate's implacable eyes and withering breath.
We still are yours and mine, though, by Time's theft, / My arms are empty and your arms bereft.
It is not hard to part-not harder than Death; / And each of us must face Death in the end!