“Forever and ever, brother, hail. Forever and ever, farewell.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess
Source: Clockwork Princess
"Divided", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Forever and ever, brother, hail. Forever and ever, farewell.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess
Source: Clockwork Princess
“My dear hands. Farewell, my poor hands.”
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) Russian composer, pianist, and conductor
Quoted in Sergei Bertensson and Jay Leyda Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002) p. 381.
Said on February 27, 1943, during his last illness, after having said that he would never be able to play again.
“Ae fond kiss, and then we sever;
Ae farewell, alas, forever!”
Robert Burns Ae fond kiss, and then we sever...
Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever, st. 1
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)
“Farewell happy fields,
Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.”
John Milton book Paradise Lost
Source: Paradise Lost
“Farewell, farewel, Night shades my Body o're,
Stretching my hands, t'embrace thee, thine no more.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Georgicks
“I would have rather felt you round my throat
Crushing out life, than waving me farewell!”
Laurence Hope India's Love Lyrics
Kashmiri Song
Indian Love Lyrics (aka Garden of Kama) (1901)
Elizabeth Bisland Whetmore (1861–1929) American writer and journalist
Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/bisland/stages/stages.html