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<h3> The Parting Ways<br/> </h3>
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We trod together pleasant ways;<br/>
<SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">The earth was fair and blue the sky;</SPAN><br/>
Clear were the nights and bright the days<br/>
<SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">And life was joy, for you were nigh.</SPAN><br/></p>
<p class="poem">
To-day the road looks steep and grim,<br/>
<SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">And shadows fall on every side,</SPAN><br/>
The sun grows strangely blurred and dim—<br/>
<SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">For in this place our paths divide.</SPAN><br/></p>
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