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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892). The Poetical Works in Four Volumes. 1892.

Appendix II. Poems Printed in the ‘Life of Whittier’

A Farewell

[Written for Mr. and Mrs. Claflin as they were about to sail to Europe.]

WHAT shall I say, dear friends, to whom I owe

The choicest blessings, dropping from the hands

Of trustful love and friendship, as you go

Forth on your journey to those older lands,

By saint and sage and bard and hero trod?

Scarcely the simple farewell of the Friends

Sufficeth; after you my full heart sends

Such benediction as the pilgrim hears

Where the Greek faith its golden dome uprears,

From Crimea’s roses to Archangel snows,

The fittest prayer of parting: “Go with God!”