Poem “Going Away” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Going Away

Walking to-day on the Common,
  I heard a stranger say
To a friend who was standing near him,
  “Do you know I am going away?”
I had never seen their faces:
  May never see them again,
But the words the stranger uttered,
  Stirred me with nameless pain.

For I knew some heart would miss him,
  Would ache at his “going away!”
And the earth would seem all cheerless,
  For many and many a day.
No matter how light my spirit,
  No matter how glad my heart,
If I hear these two words uttered,
  The tear drops always start.

They are so sad and solemn,
  So full of a lonely sound:
Like dead leaves rustling downward,
  And dropping upon the ground.
Oh, I pity the naked branches,
  When the skies are dull and gray,
And the last leaf whispers softly,
  “Good bye, I am going away.”

In the dreary, dripping Autumn,
  The wings of the flying birds,
As they soar away to the south land,
  Seem always to say these words.
Where ever they may be uttered,
  They fall with a sob, and sigh;
And heartaches follow the sentence,
  “I am going away, Good bye.”

Oh God, in Thy blessed kingdom
  No lips shall ever say,
No ears shall ever hearken
  To the words “I am going away.”
For no soul ever wearies
  Of the dear, bright, angel land,
And no saint ever wanders
  From the sunny, golden land.

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