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PASSING away from you, love,
And you look so sad, sitting there by my bed,
And I know you are thinking "How will it be?
"She is the meaning of living to me,
"How can I live with her dead?"
Passing away from you, love,
Growing weaker and weaker every day:
Soon you will sit near me, ah! so alone,
For I shall not turn to you, I your own,
I shall not heed what you say.
Passing away from you, love,
It will not be long now before the last:
We are thinking about it, feign as we will,
While I seem to sleep and you are so still,
Our clasped hands holding fast.
One same thought in our minds,
How strangely lone you will feel in your home
When I have gone out of your waking days
And you dream of our life in a sorrowful maze
When the desolate evenings come.
But, love, it cannot be lost,
The life that is ours, that I leave to you yours,
As something far more than a memory;
We know it something too real to die,
It is love, and love endures.
It will follow you into the new;
You cannot part it from you, chance what will,
You could not live as if I had not been;
So to you long hence when my grave is green,
Love, I must be somewhat still.
Passing away from you, love,
And the weakness and weariness grow into pain,
So that the last would seem dropping asleep
If it were not for you. But one rests in God's keep,
So I think you will find me again.
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Judas Pilate
The Walk To Emmaus A Bride
A March Night A Messenger
A Mother's Cry A Wedding
Afterwards Dead Amy
Deserted Dreaming
Glad Waves Going
How The Brook Sings If
In The Storm In The Sunshine
Looking Downstairs
Mary Lost Never Again
Night Whispers On The Lake
On The Shore Our Lily
Passing Away Perjured
Safe Shadow Sunlight
The Blush Rose The Gift
The Heiress' Wooer The Hidden Wound
The Lake The Land Of Happy Dreams
The Old Year Out The Red Star On The Hill
The River The Setting Star
The Shadow Of A Cloud To And Fro
To One Of Many Too faithful
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