“Tell him I lingered alone on the shore,
Where we parted, in sorrow, to meet nevermore;
The night-wind blew cold on my desolate heart
But colder those wild words of doom,—“Ye must part.””

— Sarah Helen Whitman

Our Island of Dreams.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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United States poet 1803–1878

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