Poems (Storrie)/Bid Me Farewell and Smile
Bid Me Farewell and Smile.
Coriolanus, Act IV., Scene I.
Bid me farewell and smile, though I be gone, Still shall the pulses of your life beat on, Still shall your days be studded free With opening doors of opportunity. Tears should not dim our vision, nor defile Our severing paths. Bid me farewell and smile.
Bid me farewell and smile, my spirit feels The tremor of your own, and reverent kneels Beneath its benediction, and it shall not quail At this, the body's severance, nor faint, and fail. How can Death fright us, or time touch us while Love lives? Dear Heart! look up, bid me farewell and smile.