Saying Good-bye

Thomas Hardy * Track #49 On Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1922

Saying Good-bye by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

Saying Good-bye Annotated

We are always saying
&nbsp “Good-bye, good-bye!”
In work, in playing,
In gloom, in gaying:
&nbsp At many a stage
&nbsp Of pilgrimage
&nbsp From youth to age
&nbsp We say, “Good-bye,
&nbsp       &nbsp Good-bye!”

We are undiscerning
&nbsp Which go to sigh,
Which will be yearning
For soon returning;
&nbsp And which no more
&nbsp Will dark our door,
&nbsp Or tread our shore,
&nbsp But go to die,
&nbsp       &nbsp To die.

Some come from roaming
&nbsp With joy again;
Some, who come homing
By stealth at gloaming,
&nbsp Had better have stopped
&nbsp Till death, and dropped
&nbsp By strange hands propped,
&nbsp Than come so fain,
&nbsp       &nbsp So fain.

So, with this saying,
&nbsp “Good-bye, good-bye,”
We speed their waying
Without betraying
&nbsp Our grief, our fear
&nbsp No more to hear
&nbsp From them, close, clear,
&nbsp Again: “Good-bye,
&nbsp       &nbsp Good-bye!”

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