Quote#Remembrance
I'm bidding you a long farewell
Quote byHelen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye · 1807–1867
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Songs, Poems, & Verses (1894), "The Irish Emigrant", line 49; pp. 107–108..
English (original)
I'm bidding you a long farewell, My Mary—kind and true! But I'll not forget you, darling, In the land I'm going to. They say there's bread and work for all, And the sun shines always there; But I'll not forget old Ireland, Were it fifty times as fair.
— Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye
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