When Death to Either shall come

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When Death to Either shall come by Robert Seymour Bridges

 When Death to either shall come,— 
I pray it be first to me,— 
Be happy as ever at home, 
If so, as I wish, it be. 

Possess thy heart, my own; 
And sing to the child on thy knee, 
Or read to thyself alone 
The songs that I made for thee.

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