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Legends and Lyrics Part 1
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Verse: a Parting
Without one bitter feeling let us part - And for the years in which your love has shed A radiance like a glory round my head, I thank you, yes, I thank you from my heart.
I thank you for the cherished hope of years, A starry future, dim and yet divine, Winging its way from Heaven to be mine, Laden with joy, and ignorant of tears.
I thank you, yes, I thank you even more That my heart learnt not without love to live, But gave and gave, and still had more to give, From an abundant and exhaustless store.
I thank you, and no grief is in these tears; I thank you, not in bitterness but truth, For the fair vision that adorned my youth And glorified so many happy years.
Yet how much more I thank you that you tore At length the veil your hand had woven away, Which hid my idol was a thing of clay, And false the altar I had knelt before.
I thank you that you taught me the stern truth, (None other could have told and I believed,) That vain had been my life, and I deceived, And wasted all the purpose of my youth.
I thank you that your hand dashed down the shrine, Wherein my idol worship I had paid; Else had I never known a soul was made To serve and worship only the Divine.
I thank you that the heart I cast away On such as you, though broken, bruised and crushed, Now that its fiery throbbing is all hushed, Upon a worthier altar I can lay.
I thank you for the lesson that such love Is a perverting of God’s royal right, That it is made but for the Infinite, And all too great to live except above.
I thank you for a terrible awaking, And if reproach seemed hidden in my pain, And sorrow seemed to cry on your disdain, Know that my blessing lay in your forsaking.
Farewell for ever now:- in peace we part; And should an idle vision of my tears Arise before your soul in after years - Remember that I thank you from my heart!
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Chicago: Adelaide Anne Proctor, "Verse: A Parting," Legends and Lyrics Part 1, ed. Sutherland, Alexander, 1853-1902 and trans. Seaton, R. C. in Legends and Lyrics Part 1 (New York: George E. Wood, ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892), Original Sources, accessed October 4, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=H58AHZIZUBNHSW6.
MLA: Proctor, Adelaide Anne. "Verse: A Parting." Legends and Lyrics Part 1, edited by Sutherland, Alexander, 1853-1902, and translated by Seaton, R. C., in Legends and Lyrics Part 1, New York, George E. Wood, ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892, Original Sources. 4 Oct. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=H58AHZIZUBNHSW6.
Harvard: Proctor, AA, 'Verse: A Parting' in Legends and Lyrics Part 1, ed. and trans. . cited in ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892, Legends and Lyrics Part 1, George E. Wood, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 4 October 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=H58AHZIZUBNHSW6.
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