VIII

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of New-Year's Eve

You'll bury me, my mother, just beneath the hawthorn shade,

And you'll come sometimes and see me where I am lowly laid.

I shall not forget ye, mother, I shall hear ye when ye pass,

With your feet above my head in the long and pleasant grass.

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