X

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

If I can I'll come again, mother, from out my resting-place;

Tho' ye'll not see me, mother, I shall look upon your face;

Tho' I cannot speak a word, I shall harken what ye say,

And be often—often with ye when ye think I'm faraway.

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