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Is it so far from thee / Thou canst no longer see, / In the Chamber over the Gate, / That old man desolate, / Weeping and wailing sore / For his son, who is no more? / O Absalom, my son!
Is it so long ago / That cry of human woe / From the walled city came, / Calling on his dear name, / That it has died away / In the distance of to-day? / O Absalom, my son!