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                                                                                   Farewell, ye loved haunts, where, when twilight's soft shade
                                                                                   Had spread o'er the earth her deep mantle of gray,
                                                                                   I have oft wandered forth, and thoughtfully strayed.-
                                                                                    While dim in the west, the light faded away.

                                                                                   Farewell, kind instructers: and school-mates farewell:
                                                                                   Here many bright hours we together have passed; -
                                                                                   My fast throbbing heart with emotion doth swell,
                                                                                   While I think of those hours, too happy to last.

                                                                                  But now all those pleasures have vanished away!
                                                                                   Alas! vanished how soon! though dear to my heart;
                                                                                   The joy they afforded is gone when I say
                                                                                   To friends I have ardently loved "we must part."

                                                                                    Farewell, then, ye loved ones! farewell to you all!
                                                                                    My rising emotion and sorrow I'll quell;
                                                                                    Fate summons me hence and I answer the call -
                                                                                    Then again I will bid you farewell! farewell!

Farewell to Foxcroft Lucy H. Metcalf