parting song
Example Sentences
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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 Margaret Blake Alverson
She told her most amusing stories, and finally induced Sir Thomas Wynton and her brother, mother, and sister to join her in the parting song of "Auld Lang Syne."
From A Reconstructed Marriage by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
As Hymen sang her parting song, Patsy scanned the sea of faces beyond the bank of juniper which served instead of footlights.
From Seven Miles to Arden by Ruth Sawyer
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 Mrs. Cordenio A. Severance
They bade farewell, German student fashion, singing together beforehand the parting song Abschied.
From Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1 by Sarah Tytler
