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AT A POET'S GRAVE by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE

First Line: WHEN I LEAVE DOWN THIS PIPE MY FRIEND
Last Line: AND SUMMER-BELLS ARE RUNG.
Subject(s): DEATH; EPITAPHS; FLOWERS; FUNERALS; GRAVES; SLEEP; DEAD, THE; BURIALS; TOMBS; TOMBSTONES;

WHEN I leave down this pipe my friend
And sleep with flowers I loved, apart,
My songs shall rise in wilding things
Whose roots are in my heart.

And here where that sweet poet sleeps
I hear the songs he left unsung,
When winds are fluttering the flowers
And summer-bells are rung.



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