IMPROMPTU TO ———.
Farewell! and in absence remember me still; Forget not the chain that is clinging around us,Whose links, let us wander wherever we will, In fadeless affection forever hath bound us.
Though now we must part, and it may be forever, "Our past," with its beauty, we ne'er can forget;'T is not in the power of absence to sever The memory chain that will fetter us yet.
No! fadeless and lovely it still shall entwine Our hearts, like the rainbow that arches the cloud;Though far from each other, 'tis still thine and mine, 'T will beam on thy bier, and encircle my shroud.
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