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Will You Not Let Me Go?

 

Will you not let me go?

 

Like some insidious druggist you would make Me come with craven

pleading to your door, And beg you of your mercy let me take From out

your potent wares a little more. And so, You will not let me go.

 

Will you not let me go?

 

Here, in an alien land I pass my hours, Far from my country and all

former ties. A restless longing slowly me devours That me all wordly

happiness denies. And so, Will you not let me go?

 

Will you not let me go?

 

You tell me, "Yes, I do not keep you here." That's but your fun. Why

else should I stay? While months pass by and mount up year by year So

that it seems I'll never go away. And so, You do not let me go.

 

Will you not let me go?

 

Nay, I'm a fool, I cannot if I would. I am your slave, do with me what

you will. That you should all deny, well, that is good. If it so

pleases you. I'll speak no ill. And so, Refuse to let me go!

 

Will you not let me go?

 

I'm only sorry wax beneath your hands. You've striven long to mould me

into shape. Your endless patience no one understands; Your boundless

love there's no escape. And so, You'll never let me go.

 

Will you not let me go?

 

I'm a fool that I should try to flee, For here, there is a peace I'll

never find When I the least am separate from Thee; Then I'll be but a

slave to caitiff mind. And so, I do not wish to go.

 

 

 

 

 

By Sadhu Arunachala (Major A.W. Chadwick, O.B.E.) From The Golden Jubilee Souvenir, 1946

 

 

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