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Edgar Albert Guest

Edgar Albert Guest

If You Would Please Me

If you would please me when I’ve passed away
   Let not your grief embitter you. Be brave;
   Turn with full courage from my mounded grave
And smile upon the children at their play;
Let them make merry in their usual way;
   Do not with sorrow those young lives enslave
   Or steal from them the fleeting joys they crave;
Let not your grieving spoil their happy day.
   Live on as you have lived these many years,
Still let your soul be gentle and be kind—
   I never liked to see those eyes in tears!
Weep not too much that you must stay behind;
   Share in the lives of others as you’d share,
   If God had willed it still to leave me there.

#English #XXCentury

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