Full Lyrics
Farewell! the nevermore has come, the nevermore;
In boyhood’s fairyland, I ween,
With Fancy, boyhood’s fairy queen,
On life’s great shore,
To stand, and work, and dream,
The old school bell now rings your knell.
Then welcome bolder life, wide air, and larger scope,
A bonny welcome, bonny world,
A bonny light on sails unfurled,
Oh! welcome hope,
Then go, then go the while,
Our voices meet and swell in blithe farewell.
Farewell! yet wheresoe’er you go, we breathe a spell,
A thousand sprites at our command,
’Twixt you and us, from fairyland,
Brook no farewell,
The good old days live on,
They shall not be, not be for got.
