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A last adieu I well may waive
To her I loved so well;
She does not care what doom I bear,
Yet, heartless maid, farewell!
No bridal sheet
For me is meet,
I seek the soldier's bier,
Who, for his God,
Sleeps on the sod,
Unstained by woman's tear.