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Say farewell, and let me go; / Shatter every vow!
All the future can bestow / Will be welcome now!
And if this fair hand I touch / I have worshipped overmuch, / It was my mistake -- and so, / Say farewell, and let me go.
Say farewell, and let me go: / Murmur no regret, / Stay your tear-drops ere they flow -- / Do not waste them yet!
They might pour as pours the rain, / And not wash away the pain: / I have tried them and I know. -- / Say farewell, and let me go.
Say farewell, and let me go: / Think me not untrue -- / True as truth is, even so / I am true to you!
If the ghost of love may stay / Where my fond heart dies to-day, / I am with you alway -- so, / Say farewell, and let me go.