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How some they have died, and some they have left me,

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Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother,

I have a friend, a kinder friend has no man:

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Closed are her doors on me, I must not see her;

In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days;

Earth seemd a desert I was bound to traverse,