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Farewell ye partner of my woes, farewell! / The finest language could but faintly tell, / What I now feel in writing this adieu, / What you must suffer when I'm far from you.
There was a time when happiness my lot, / I liv'd serenely in my little cot; / No wicked thoughts did then disturb my rest, / My children round me, by a father prest; / No father now, methinks I hear them say, / He's gone from us, he's hurried far away.