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Good-bye -- yes, I am going. / Sudden? Well, you are right; / But a startling truth came home to me / With sudden force last night. / What is it? Shall I tell you? / Nay, that is why I go. / I am running away from the battlefield / Turning my back on the foe.
Riddles? You think me cruel! / Have you not been most kind? / Why, when you question me like that, / What answer can I find? / You fear you failed to amuse me, / Your husband's friend and guest, / Whom he bade you entertain and please -- / Well, you have done your best. / Then why am I going? / A friend of mine abroad, / Whose theories I have been acting upon, / Has proven himself a fraud. / You have heard me quote from Plato / A thousand times no doubt; / Well, I have discovered he did not know / What he was talking about.