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OUR FATHER'S WELL.
COME, let's go back, my brother, And, by our father's well, Sit down beside each other, Life's little dreams to tell.
For there we played together, In childhood's sunny hours; Before life's stormy weather Had killed its morning flowers.
And since no draught we're tasted, Its weary journey through, As we so far have hasted, Like that our father drew;
I feel, as at a mountain, I cannot pass nor climb, Till from that distant fountain I drink, as in my prime.
My spirit's longing, thirsting, No waters else can quell; My heart seems near to bursting To reach that good old well.