Hello! Nora! Hello! Gertie, too! <br />Hello, Eliza, and Birtha Dean! <br />Sarah, Eve, and Alice, all, <br />Who hath my seat-mates been. <br />Mildred! Mildred! Oh, where are you? <br />Grace, and Hester, too. <br />Oh! Girls! Girls! Where can you be? <br />I've so often thought of you. <br /> <br />Ruth Brandon, I'll never forget you! <br />Amer, your bright face I see! <br />Ethel, thoughts of you brings memories <br />Oh! Where in this world can you be? <br /> <br />Oh! Alice, I loved you so dearly <br />My heart was nigh rent with pain. <br />When they told me I'd never, never <br />Behold your sweet face again. <br /> <br />Oh! School mates I'll never forget you! <br />I loved you, and when I was near blind, <br />Not one little trifling incident, but <br />What occurred o'er, and o'er in my mind. <br /> <br />We may never meet again in this world <br />Your dear faces, I may never again behold <br />Yet, I hope to meet you in heaven <br />In that city, with Streets of pure gold.<br /><br />Della Hodgson James<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/school-mates/
