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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 there 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.