The Anglo-Irish poet focuses on the emotions roused by the typical teenager leaving home. But there is a sense in which our lives consist of a whole succession of 'partings' which come: with family, relationships, work, health and, as the poet understood, maybe even with life itself and with God. We can go without Him. And God lets us go as He demonstrated in the coming and going of Jesus. 'Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world.... Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.' (John 13:1).... 'And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.' (Matthew 28:20).