Scottish Poetry Selection
- Goodbye
Goodbye
Good bye, old year, good bye!
We have been blithe together
And parting craves a sigh.
You have been long my guest
In bright and cloudy weather
And how you travel west:
West is the sunset land
Of dimness and forgetting.
A newer guest at hand.
To make your memory pale
Will soon himself be setting
Where you have told your tale.
You come and you depart
To chance and change inuring
The hostel of my heart.
And neither smile nor sigh
Is ever long-enduring.
Good bye, old year, good bye.
Where else would you like to go in Scotland?
