Good-bye my Fancy!
Farewell dear mate, dear love!
I'm going away, I know not where
Or to what fortune, or whether I may ever see you again
So Good-bye my Fancy
Now for my last-let me look back a moment
The slower fainter ticking of the clock is in me
Exit, nightfall, and soon the heart-thud stopping
Long have we lived, joy'd, caress'd together
Delightful!-now separation-Good-bye my Fancy
Yet let me not be too hasty
Long indeed have we lived, slept, filter'd, become really
blended into one
Then if we die we die together, (yes,we'll remain one,)
If we go anywhere we'll be better off and blither, and learn something
May-be it is yourself now really ushering me
to the true songs, (who knows?)
May-be it is you the mortal knob really undoing, turning
so now finally
Good-bye-and hail! my Fancy!