Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TODAY AND TOMORROW, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY


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TODAY AND TOMORROW, by                    
First Line: Withhold all eulogies when I am dead
Last Line: My mother gave me.
Subject(s): Death; Forgiveness; Religion; Dead, The; Clemency; Theology


Withhold all eulogies when I am dead,
All noisy sorrow;
Give me the tender word today, instead
Of tears tomorrow.

Come not with flowers to strew above my breast,
And sigh for me there.
The hawk or crow may haunt the piny crest;
I shall not be there.

Speak not my name, when I have passed from earth,
In tones of sadness;
At thought of me repress no note of mirth,
No burst of gladness.

Regard me not as altered when removed
To the hereafter;
Think of me still as loving and as loved
With joy and laughter.

Delay not, thou whom I have wounded sore,
Till thou outlive me
To grant the pardon that I here implore,
But now forgive me.

Pretend not that I merit saintly fame;
Let mercy save me;
Sufficient for my epitaph the name
My mother gave me.





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