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FAREWELL AT LIZARD POINT. |
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XI. FAREWELL AT LIZARD POINT.
We say farewell, the half we never knowOf those who wave their hands, farewell! farewell!
And so we fade to distance—it is well—
If we knew all we leave we could not go.
How many a heart beneath the wings of snow,
In quest of other lands wherein to dwell,
Has passed this headland conscious of a spell,
Yet never sighed or felt the full tear flow!
These have not known how here the swallow first
Bears England summer on her glossy wings,
How first about this cape the cuckoo calls,
How here upon these southern-hearted walls
The earliest flowers to radiant glory burst,
And all day long of home the skylark sings.
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