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Park Benjamin Sr. was well known in his time as an American poet, journalist, editor and founder of several newspapers. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. August 1809 – 12. September 1864
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“And, like some low and mournful spell,
To whisper but one word—farewell!”

A Thought on Parting.
Context: But then to part! to part when Time
Has wreathed his tireless wing with flowers,
And spread the richness of a clime
Of fairy o'er this land of ours;
When glistening leaves and shaded streams
In the soft light of Autumn lay,
And, like the music of our dreams,
The viewless breezes seemed to stray—
'T was bitter then to rend the heart
With the sad thought that we must part;
And, like some low and mournful spell,
To whisper but one word—farewell!

“Flowers are Love's truest language.”

Sonnet, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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