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LET US BE COMPANIONS STILL.
Why should distant friends be strangers?
What though ne'er together seen?
What though oceans, with their dangers,
Roll ten thousand miles between?
What though, worlds asunder, ranging?
Memory renders distance nil;
Let us still be thoughts exchanging,
Let us be companions still.
What though ne'er together seen?
What though oceans, with their dangers,
Roll ten thousand miles between?
What though, worlds asunder, ranging?
Memory renders distance nil;
Let us still be thoughts exchanging,
Let us be companions still.
Why should distant friends sit weary,
With the past before them spread,
Nursing dreams and fancies dreary,
Fearing friendship chilled or dead?
Is there not a medium willing
All our thoughts to waft at will?
While the pen can paint a feeling,
Let us be companions still.
With the past before them spread,
Nursing dreams and fancies dreary,
Fearing friendship chilled or dead?
Is there not a medium willing
All our thoughts to waft at will?
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Let us be companions still.
So upon the moors and meadows,
Where we roamed in days of yore,
We may sit and watch the shadows
Creeping o'er the hills once more:
Once again may gather brambles,
Roam again by moorland rill;
Ramble o'er again our rambles,
And be dear companions still.
Where we roamed in days of yore,
We may sit and watch the shadows
Creeping o'er the hills once more:
Once again may gather brambles,
Roam again by moorland rill;
Ramble o'er again our rambles,
And be dear companions still.
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