PARTING
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PARTING, I take with me completed June, Remembered hoard of time in thought compact; Eventual winds will not dissolve a tune Of solid air, the body of this fact. Mind’s acres are forever green: Oh, I Shall keep perpetual summer here; I shall Refuse to let one startled swallow die, One petal of this colored beauty fall. Here, wandered from confusion, I shall greet My youth immaculate in memory’s urn; This is my country, where the tireless feet Of my adventure, homing, will return. Each day will end in this day; every ship Will bring me back, bright lip on lonely lip.