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.
Robert Bridges
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