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Robert Bridges

When Death to either shall come,—
  I pray it be first to me,—
Be happy as ever at home,
  If so, as I wish, it be.

Possess thy heart, my own;
  And sing to the child on thy knee,
Or read to thyself alone
  The songs that I made for thee.

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From The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250-1900 | Clarendon, 1919

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