A Presentiment

Robert Fuller Murray 1863 – 1894



It seems a little word to say -
FAREWELL--but may it not, when said,
Be like the kiss we give the dead,
Before they pass the doors for aye?

Who knows if, on some after day,
Your lips shall utter in its stead
A welcome, and the broken thread
Be joined again, the selfsame way?

The word is said, I turn to go,
But on the threshold seem to hear
A sound as of a passing bell,
Tolling monotonous and slow,
Which strikes despair upon my ear,
And says it is a last farewell.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABBX ABBA CDECDE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 462
Words 96
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 6

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