Missouri Maiden's Farewell to Alabama, A. 
By Twain, Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). 


Alabama, good-bye! I love thee well!
But yet for a while do I leave thee now!
Sad, yes, sad thoughts of thee my heart doth swell,
And burning recollections throng my brow!
For I have wandered through thy flowery woods,
Have roamed and read near Tallapoosa's streams,
Have listened to Talassee's warring floods,
And wooed by Coosa's side Aurora's beam.

Yet shame I not to bear an o'erfull heart,
Nor blush to turn behind my tearful eyes,
'Tis from no stranger land I now must part,
'Tis to no strangers left I yield these sighs.
Welcome and home were mine within this State,
Whose vales I leave, whose spires fade fast from me,
And cold must be mine eyes and heart and tete,
Ere, dear Alabama! they turn cold on thee!