| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 12501900. |
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| Robert Bridges. b. 1844 |
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| 840. When Death to Either shall come |
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| 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. | |
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| Possess thy heart, my own; | 5 |
| And sing to the child on thy knee, | |
| Or read to thyself alone | |
| The songs that I made for thee. | |
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