“Ae fond kiss, and then we sever;
Ae farewell, alas, forever!”
Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever, st. 1
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)
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Scottish poet and lyricist 1759–1796Related quotes
"Wilt thou unkind thus reave me of my heart", line 25, The First Book of Songs (1597).
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And wave their hands for a mute farewell.”
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“Farewell happy fields,
Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.”
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"Love and Duty" l. 57 - 67 (1842).
Context: The slow sweet hours that bring us all things good,
The slow sad hours that bring us all things ill,
And all good things from evil, brought the night
In which we sat together and alone,
And to the want, that hollow'd all the heart,
Gave utterance by the yearning of an eye,
That burn'd upon its object thro' such tears
As flow but once a life. The trance gave way
To those caresses, when a hundred times
In that last kiss, which never was the last,
Farewell, like endless welcome, lived and died.
