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When you were tired and went away, / I said, amid my new heart-ache: / "When I catch breath from pain some day, / I will teach grief a worthier way, / And make a great song for his sake!"
Yet there is silence. O my friend, / You gave me love such years ago -- / A child who could not comprehend / Its worth, yet kept it to the end -- / How can I sing when you lie low?