For my funeral
O thou that from thy mansion
through time and place to roam,
dost send abroad thy children,
and then dost call them home,
that men and tribes and nations
and all thy hand hath made
may shelter them from sunshine
in thine eternal shade:
we now to peace and darkness
and earth and thee restore
thy creature that thou madest
and wilt cast forth no more.
(Original: Alfred Edward Housman)
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Because I liked you better
Than suits a man to say,
It irked you and I promised
I'd throw the thought away.
To put the world between us
We parted stiff and dry:
'Farewell', said you, 'forget me'.
'Farewell, I will', said I.
If e'er, where clover whitens,
The dead man's knoll, you pass,
And no tall flower to meet you
Starts in the trefoiled grass,
Halt by the headstone shading
The heart you have not stirred,
And say the lad that loved you
Was one that kept his word.
(Original: Alfred Edward Housman)