For works with similar titles, see A Farewell.
A FAREWELL
Goodbye, perhaps forever here,
With God 'tis but a little while,
To sleep and wake and find you near,
To hear your voice and see your smile,
The few brief years that intervene
Will only be a cloud between,
When to our clearer sight,
As unto God this Life appears,
A thousand of her little years,
As a watch in the night;
Goodbye, 'till endless day is born,
Goodnight, until the morn.
With God 'tis but a little while,
To sleep and wake and find you near,
To hear your voice and see your smile,
The few brief years that intervene
Will only be a cloud between,
When to our clearer sight,
As unto God this Life appears,
A thousand of her little years,
As a watch in the night;
Goodbye, 'till endless day is born,
Goodnight, until the morn.