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SCHOOL-CHILDREN.
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Widely and far are parted now: severed are
friendship's bands;
Some are away in the distant West, and some
in other lands ;
Some dear eyes we have closed in rest, and
folded some weary hands.
We turn again to those early days when the
path grows before,
And we cry again aloud, "Come back again, O
halcyon days of yore!"
And they send but a doleful requiem back, the
echo of " Never more."
