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How will it be when one of us alone / Goes on that strange last journey of the soul? / That certain search for an uncertain goal, / That voyage on which no comradeship is known? / Will our dear sea sing with the old sweet tone, / Though one sits stricken where its billows roll? / Will space be dumb, or from the mystic pole / Will spirit-messages be backward blown? / When our united lives are wrenched apart, / And day no more means fond companionship, / When fervent night, and lovely languorous dawn, / Are only memories to one sad heart, / And but in dreams love-kisses burn the lip, -- / Dear God, how can this same fair world move on?