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lorelei king - ralph waldo emerson - goodbye lyrics

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good+bye, proud world! i’m going home:
thou art not my friend, and i’m not thine
long through thy weary crowds i roam;
a river+ark on the ocean brine
long i’ve been tossed like the driven foam;
but now, proud world! i’m going home

good+bye to flattery’s fawning face;
to grandeur with his wise grimace;
to upstart wealth’s averted eye;
to supple office, low and high;
to crowded halls, to court and street;
to frozen hearts and hasting feet;
to those who go, and those who come;
good+bye, proud world! i’m going home

i am going to my own hearth+stone
bosomed in yon green hills alone, —
a secret nook in a plеasant land
whose groves the frolic fairiеs planned;
where arches green, the livelong day
echo the blackbird’s roundelay
and vulgar feet have never trod
a spot that is sacred to thought and god

o, when i am safe in my sylvan home
i tread on the pride of greece and rome;
and when i am stretched beneath the pines
where the evening star so holy shines
i laugh at the lore and the pride of man
at the sophist schools, and the learned clan;
for what are they all, in their high conceit
when man in the bush with god may meet?

- lorelei king lyrics

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