XI

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

Goodnight, goodnight, when I have said goodnight for evermore,

And ye see me carried out from the threshold of the door;

Don't let Effie come to see me till my grave be growing green:

She'll be a better child to you than ever I have been.

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