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Augustin S. Macdonald, comp. A Collection of Verse by California Poets. 1914.

By Edward Pollock

The Parting Hour (excerpt)

THERE’S something in the “parting hour,”

Will chill the warmest heart,

Yet kindred, comrades, lovers, friends,

Are fated all to part;

But this I’ve seen—and many a pang

Has pressed it on my mind—

The one that goes is happier

Than those he leaves behind.