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Fear not, my Jim, and do not mourn,
Your heart is brave and strong;
Let not the sorrows of your soul
Occlude your light for long.
I lost you once--remember, Jim?
At my own hand you fell;
I thought I should not last til morn;
What joy to find you well!
So is it any harder, Jim,
When it is yours the loss?
When you are left alone, bereft,
And I have borne the cost?
You think I find it easy, Jim,
From life to walk away--
Just as you sacrificed yourself
For me in kal-i-fee?
If we had had the choice, you know
I would have died with you,
But other lives were in our hands--
Could I forsake them too?
Do not grieve, Admiral, my death,
My life was not in vain.
I failed in only this, my Jim:
I could not spare your pain.
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