Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
France: Vols. IX–X. 1876–79. | | | | Introductory | | Queen Mary’s Farewell | | Mary Queen of Scots (1542–1587) |
| | Anonymous translation
FAREWELL, beloved France, to thee, | |
| Best native land! | |
| The cherished strand | |
| That nursed my tender infancy! | |
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| Farewell, my childhood’s happy day! | 5 |
| The bark that bears me thus away | |
| Bears but the poorer moiety hence; | |
| The nobler half remains with thee,— | |
| I leave it to thy confidence, | |
| But to remind thee still of me! | 10 | | | |
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