Hence away, begone, begone,
Carking care and melancholy!
Think ye thus to govern me
All my life long, as ye have done?
That shall ye not, I promise ye;
Reason shall have the mastery.
So hence away, begone, begone,
Carking care and melancholy!
If ever ye return this way,
With your mournful company,
A curse be on ye, and the day
That brings ye moping back to me!
Hence away, begone, I say!
Carking care and melancholy!
More verses by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Song Of The Silent Land. (From The German Of Salis)
- Italian Scenery
- The Wave. (From The German Of Tiedge)
- Flower-De-Luce: The Bells Of Lynn. Heard At Nahant
- The Hunting Of Pau-Puk Keewis