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First Line: Write on my grave when I am dead
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Religion


Write on my grave when I am dead,
Whatever road I trod
That I admired and honoured
The wondrous works of God.
That all the days and years I had,
The greatest and the least,
Each day with grateful heart and glad
I sat me to a feast.
That not alone for body's meat
Which takes the lowest place
I gave Him grace when I did eat
And with a shining face.
But for the spirit filled and fed
That else must waste and die,
With sun and stars replenished
And dew and evening sky.
The beauty of the hills and seas
Brimmed that immortal cup;
And when I went by fields and trees
My heart was lifted up.
Lap me in the green grass and write
Upon the daisied sod
That still I praised with all my might
The wondrous works of God.






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