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 But now will canker sorrow eat my bud
 And chase the native beauty from his cheek,
  And read more 
 But now will canker sorrow eat my bud
 And chase the native beauty from his cheek,
  And he will look as hollow as a ghost,
   As dim and meagre as an ague's fit,
    And so he'll die; and rising so again,
     When I shall meet him in the court of heaven
      I shall not know him. 
 As two floating planks meet and part on the sea,
 O friend! so I met and then drifted from read more 
 As two floating planks meet and part on the sea,
 O friend! so I met and then drifted from thee. 
We shall meet but we shall miss her.
We shall meet but we shall miss her.
 We twain have met like the ships upon the sea,
 Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet:
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 We twain have met like the ships upon the sea,
 Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet:
  One little hour! and then, away they speed
   On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam,
    To meet no more. 
 Like driftwood spares which meet and pass
 Upon the boundless ocean-plain,
  So on the sea of life, read more 
 Like driftwood spares which meet and pass
 Upon the boundless ocean-plain,
  So on the sea of life, alas!
   Man nears man, meets, and leaves again. 
 As vessels starting from ports thousands of miles apart pass 
close to each other in the naked breadth of read more 
 As vessels starting from ports thousands of miles apart pass 
close to each other in the naked breadth of the ocean, nay, 
sometimes even touch in the dark. 
 Alas, by what rude fate
 Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet,
  Then part forever read more 
 Alas, by what rude fate
 Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet,
  Then part forever on their courses fleet. 
 When shall we three meet again
 In thunder, lightning, or in rain?  
 When shall we three meet again
 In thunder, lightning, or in rain?