parting song

Example Sentences

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Why did he not pour forth a parting song Expressive of his feelings—always strong?

From The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects by Cowherd, Thomas

The company is then regaled with cakes and ale, and the revellers depart, pausing outside the door to sing a parting song of thanks and good wishes to their entertainers.

From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Sikes, Wirt

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

I know not,—yet farewell   Sweet home of mine,—my parting song is o'er, And stranger forms among your bowers shall dwell,   Where I return no more.

From The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems by MacLean, Kate Seymour

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.