| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| Henry Austin Dobson. b. 1840 |
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826. In After Days
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| IN after days when grasses high | |
| O'er-top the stone where I shall lie, | |
| Though ill or well the world adjust | |
| My slender claim to honour'd dust, | |
| I shall not question nor reply. | 5 |
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| I shall not see the morning sky; | |
| I shall not hear the night-wind sigh; | |
| I shall be mute, as all men must | |
| In after days! | |
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| But yet, now living, fain would I | 10 |
| That some one then should testify, | |
| Saying—'He held his pen in trust | |
| To Art, not serving shame or lust.' | |
| Will none?—Then let my memory die | |
| In after days! | 15 |
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