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Show Good-By, Sweet Day. Good-by, sweet day, good-by! I have so loved thee, but 1 cannot hold thee. Departing like a dienni, the shadows fold thee: Slowly thy perfect beauty fades away; Good-by, sweet clay! Good-by, sweet day. good-by! Dear were thy golden hours of ttanqull splendor. Badly thou yielded to the evening tender. Who were so fair from the first morning ray; Good-by, sweet day! Good-by, sweet day, good-by! Thy slow and charm, thy smiles and tones and glances, Vanish at last, and solemn nleht advances: ad-vances: Ah, eouldst thou yet ii llttlo longer stay! Good-by, sweet day! Good-by, sweet day, good-by! All thy rich gifts my grateful heart re- membels Tho while I watch thy sunset's smoldering smolder-ing embers Die In tho West beneath tho twilight gray. Good-by. sweet day! Colla Thaxter. |