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| WE have been friends together | |
| In sunshine and in shade, | |
| Since first beneath the chestnut-tree | |
| In infancy we played. | |
| But coldness dwells within thy heart, | 5 |
| A cloud is on thy brow; | |
| We have been friends together, | |
| Shall a light word part us now? | |
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| We have been gay together; | |
| We have laughed at little jests; | 10 |
| For the fount of hope was gushing | |
| Warm and joyous in our breasts, | |
| But laughter now hath fled thy lip, | |
| And sullen glooms thy brow; | |
| We have been gay together, | 15 |
| Shall a light word part us now? | |
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| We have been sad together; | |
| We have wept with bitter tears | |
| O’er the grass-grown graves where slumbered | |
| The hopes of early years. | 20 |
| The voices which were silent then | |
| Would bid thee cheer thy brow; | |
| We have been sad together, | |
| Shall a light word part us now? | |
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