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“Farewell, my Spain! a long farewell!” he cried,

“Perhaps I may revisit thee no more,

But die, as many an exiled heart hath died,

Of its own thirst to see again thy shore:

Farewell, where Guadalquivir’s waters glide!

Farewell, my mother! and, since all is o’er,

Farewell, too, dearest Julia!⁠—(here he drew

Her letter out again, and read it through.)