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This Night We Part Forever
One more of the songs of lovers' quarrels. It might perhaps be
entered as a form of 'Fond Affection,' or 'We Have Met and We
Have Parted,' or another. In just this form it has not been found
elsewhere.
No title. Communicated by Miss Pearl Webb of Pineda, Avery county;
not dated, but probably in 1921 or 1922.
1 This night we part forever ;
Thou art nothing more to me.
From thee each tie I'll sever
That binds my heart to thee.
2 Not a single nerve shall quiver
When I bid thee last adieu;
Though it breaks my heart forever
Not a tear shall fall for thee.
Forget the kiss I gave you.
Think you I prize it yet ?
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For the one you have so shghted
Looketh only to forget.
Take your love ; I do not want it ;
All your gifts take back again.
Not a breeze that whispers of you,
Not a flower would I retain.
Go and smile upon some other,
Go worship at her shrine,
Win her heart and cheerily break it
As you would have broken mine.
Go in peace, although you've blighted
All the hopes so dear to me.
Yet I pray that God's best blessing
May ever rest on thee.