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O playmate of the far-away / And dear delights of Boyhood's day, / And friend and comrade true and tried / Through length of years of life beside, / I bid you thus a fond farewell / Too deep for words or tears to tell.
But though I lose you, nevermore / To greet you at the open door, / To grasp your hand or see your smile, / I shall be thankful all the while / Because your love and loyalty / Have made a happier world for me.
So rest you, Playmate, in that land / Still hidden from us by His hand, / Where you may know again in truth / All of the glad days of your youth -- / As when in days of endless ease / We played beneath the apple trees.