parting song
Example Sentences
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The light wind's voice Was muffled in requiem, mournful, low,— A parting song to Summer, sad, soft, And measured slow.
From Indian Legends of Minnesota by Severance, Cordenio A., Mrs.
Then the parting song was sung, and the students retired to their rooms in one of the college dormitories.
From Walter Sherwood's Probation by Alger, Horatio
When the meeting broke up, they all came round in procession, shaking hands with the superintendent and the strangers present, and singing a parting song, "There's a meeting here to-night!"
From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Coffin, Charles Carleton
His parting song to Clarinda is, in the opinion of many literary men, the greatest love-song of its kind ever written.
From The Real Robert Burns by Hughes, J. L.
Instead of the wedding song I was called upon to sing the parting song for the beloved pupil.
From Sixty Years of California Song by Alverson, Margaret Blake
