Dear friends, farewell, I do you tell,
Since you and I must part;
I go away and here you stay,
But still we’re joined in heart.

Your love to me has been most free,
Your conversation sweet;
How can I bear to journey where
With you I cannot meet?

When we’ve been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun;
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise
Than when we first begun.

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