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<p id="id00542" style="margin-top: 5em">The Welcome and Farewell.</p>
<p id="id00543" style="margin-top: 4em">To meet, and part, as we have met and parted,<br/>
One moment cherished and the next forgot,<br/>
To wear a smile when almost broken-hearted,<br/>
I know full well is hapless woman's lot;<br/>
Yet let me, to thy tenderness appealing,<br/>
Avert this brief but melancholy doom—<br/>
Content that close beside the thorn of feeling,<br/>
Grows memory, like a rose, in guarded bloom.<br/></p>
<p id="id00544">Love's history, dearest, is a sad one ever,<br/>
Yet often with a smile I've heard it told!<br/>
Oh, there are records of the heart which never<br/>
Are to the scrutinizing gaze unrolled!<br/>
My eyes to thine may scarce again aspire—<br/>
Still in thy memory, dearest let me dwell,<br/>
And hush, with this hope, the magnetic wire,<br/>
Wild with our mingled welcome and farewell!<br/></p>
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