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by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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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.