A Wish [Let Me Not Die For Ever When I'm Laid]

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Title:     A Wish [Let Me Not Die For Ever When I'm Laid]
Author: Fanny Kemble [More Titles by Kemble]

Let me not die for ever when I'm laid
In the cold earth! but let my memory
Live still among ye, like the evening shade,
That o'er the sinking day steals placidly.
Let me not be forgotten! though the knell
Has tolled for me its solemn lullaby;
Let me not be forgotten! though I dwell
For ever now in death's obscurity.
Yet oh! upon the emblazoned leaf of fame,
Trace not a record, not a line for me,
But let the lips I loved oft breathe my name,
And in your hearts enshrine my memory!

[The end]
Fanny Kemble's poem: Wish [Let Me Not Die For Ever When I'm Laid]

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