Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume I/Parting

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

For works with similar titles, see Parting.

For works with similar titles, see Farewell.

CHAPTER III.

ANTICIPATION.

We do not know how much we love,
    Until we come to leave;
An aged tree, a common flower,
    Are things o'er which we grieve.
There is a pleasure in the pain
That brings us back the past again.

We linger while we turn away,
    We cling while we depart;
And memories, unmarked till then,
    Come crowding on the heart.
Let what will lure our onward way,
Farewell's a bitter word to say.

Blanchard’s title is:

PARTING

Musical Settings:

Song, “We do not know how much we love,” music by G. Loder in The New York Glee Book, 1851
Ballad, music by Owen Hope, 1865

It appeared in the New York Mirror (24th February 1838), as Farewell