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Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.

Remember

William Johnson Cory (1823–1892)

YOU come not, as aforetime, to the headstone every day,

And I, who died, I do not chide because, my friend, you play;

Only, in playing, think of him who once was kind and dear,

And, if you see a beauteous thing, just say, he is not here.