56904. Synge, J.M. (John Millington). The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996

The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996.


NUMBER:	56904
QUOTATION:	I asked if I got sick and died, would you With my black funeral go walking too, If you’d stand close to hear them talk or pray While I’m let down in that steep bank of clay.
ATTRIBUTION:	J.M. (John Millington) Synge (1871–1909), Irish dramatist. A Question (l. 24–25). . . Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press.