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 If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed;
 If not, 'tis true this parting was well made.  
 If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed;
 If not, 'tis true this parting was well made. 
 Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
 That I shall say good night till it be morrow.  
 Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
 That I shall say good night till it be morrow. 
 She went her unremembering way,
 She went and left in me
  The pang of all the partings read more 
 She went her unremembering way,
 She went and left in me
  The pang of all the partings gone,
   And partings yet to be. 
 Kathleen Mavourneen, the gray dawn is breaking,
 The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill,
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 Kathleen Mavourneen, the gray dawn is breaking,
 The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill,
  The lark from her light wing the bright dew is shaking--
   Kathleen Mavourneen, what, slumbering, still?
    Oh hast thou forgotten how soon we must sever?
     Oh hast thou forgotten this day we must part?
      It may be for years and it may be forever;
       Oh why art thou silent, thou voice of my heart? 
Such parting break the heart they fondly hope to heal.
Such parting break the heart they fondly hope to heal.
 Fare thee well! and if for ever,
 Still for ever, fare thee well.  
 Fare thee well! and if for ever,
 Still for ever, fare thee well. 
 Gone--flitted away,
 Taken the stars from the night and the sun
  From the day!
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 Gone--flitted away,
 Taken the stars from the night and the sun
  From the day!
   Gone, and a cloud in my heart. 
 Till then, good-night!
 You wish the time were now? And I.
  You do not blush to wish read more 
 Till then, good-night!
 You wish the time were now? And I.
  You do not blush to wish it so?
   You would have blush'd yourself to death
    To own so much a year ago.
     What! both these snowy hands? ah, then
      I'll have to say, Good-night again.