~HE SA/IN 1 
 5OOD BYE 
 
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 GOOD BYE 
 
 WILBUR. D. NESBIT 
 
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 stand , 
 
 Though it's only folks 
 o f ' 
 
 mat you. scarcely 
 
 know 
 There is somethin' sad 
 
 in. tKe close stripped 
 
 Hand. 
 A.n ! tKey walk away, 
 
 an 1 you watch, them. 
 
 on 
 With a slowin' breath 
 
 that is half a si$h; 
 Q 
 
 But it's not the fact 
 that the folks has 
 
 It's the saym 1 
 
 bye " it ' s the s ayin' 
 "good bve."
 
 When, some one that's 
 barely a friend, of 
 you 
 
 Drops in for a meal or 
 to chat a bit, 
 
 But the words "^ood 
 
 bye" have a gloomy 
 
 i O ' 
 
 tone 
 
 Like a whispered. <3rief 
 
 though I cant say 
 
 u 6 
 
 why ' 
 
 It's the shadowed thought 
 that you're left alone; 
 
 It's the savin' "^ood 
 bye ' ' it' s the sayin '
 
 the years have 
 come an ' the 
 years have $one 
 I have said Vood bye," 
 
 as I had to say, 
 In the hush of niht 
 
 or the mist of 
 
 dawn. 
 To my friends an 1 
 
 foes an ' they went 
 
 away. 
 An' they lived or died 
 
 -^ but they left my 
 
 life 
 As a cloud drifts on 
 
 from the summer 
 
 sky; 
 An' they left my peace 
 
 or they left my 
 
 strife 
 With the sayin' "ood 
 
 bye" with the sayin'
 
 BYE!" "Good 
 
 bye!" Every day 
 
 an 1 ni^Kt . 
 Q 
 
 With a back^waved 
 
 hand an 1 a 
 smile ; 
 
 friendly 
 
 Though we say the 
 
 words in a tone 
 
 that's light 
 There ' s an echoed 
 
 ^rief in them all 
 
 the while . 
 They are blent of cheer 
 
 an' of smile an' tear 
 In tKe mingled breath 
 
 of a lau^h an' si$h 
 An' the hardest task 
 
 that we must do 
 
 here 
 Is the sayin 1 "<^ood 
 
 bye" is the sayin 1
 
 OO I look ahead to 
 kJ the land to be 
 An 1 I tell myself I 
 
 shall stand an' 
 
 wait 
 Near the shinm 1 shore 
 
 of the crystal sea, 
 In a little spot by 
 
 the wondrous ^a-te , 
 An' I'll greet rny 
 
 friends with a "how 
 
 d'ye do" 
 In the laughterlighb 
 
 of the ni^htless 
 
 sky 
 
 An 1 be lad at last 
 
 that our hearts are 
 
 throudh 
 With the sayin' "ood 
 
 bye" with the sayin 1 
 
 "^>ood bye-" 
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