Poems That Every Child Should Know/Life, I Know Not What Thou Art

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65901Poems That Every Child Should Know — Life, I Know Not What Thou ArtAnna Laetitia Barbauld

Life, I Know Not What Thou Art.

Life! I know not what thou art,
But know that thou and I must part;
And when, or how, or where we met
I own to me's a secret yet.
Life! we've been long together
Through pleasant and through cloudy weather
'Tis hard to part when friends are dear—
Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear;
—Then steal away, give little warning,
Choose thine own time;
Say not Good Night,—but in some brighter clime
Bid me Good Morning.

A. L. Barbauld.