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Farewell! -- but thou wilt soon forget / The stranger thou hast seen, / And in the gay and busy world, / Forget that I have been.
And thought of me will scarce intrude, / When other forms are nigh; / Who, decked in beauty's bright array, / Shall pass before thine eye.
Another's lips will charm thee then, / Another's voice will praise; / Thou wilt forget we e'er have met / In past and happy days.
And thou wilt scarcely deign to think / Of friendship's early dream, / Or cast one glance, in after years, / On this poor offering.
Farewell -- farewell! -- 'twere better far / That we had never met, / Than meeting one brief moment here, / To part -- and then forget.