SHALL I FORGET?.
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To see one much more fair
Fill up the vacant chair,
Fill his heart, his children bear:
While thou and I together,
In the outcast weather,
Toss and howl and spin.
Fill up the vacant chair,
Fill his heart, his children bear:
While thou and I together,
In the outcast weather,
Toss and howl and spin.
SHALL I FORGET?
SHALL I forget on this side of the grave?
I promise nothing: you must wait and see
Patient and brave.
(O my soul, watch with him and he with me.)
I promise nothing: you must wait and see
Patient and brave.
(O my soul, watch with him and he with me.)
Shall I forget in peace of Paradise?
I promise nothing: follow, friend, and see
Faithful and wise.
(O my soul, lead the way he walks with me.)
I promise nothing: follow, friend, and see
Faithful and wise.
(O my soul, lead the way he walks with me.)
LIFE AND DEATH.
LIFE is not sweet. One day it will be sweet
To shut our eyes and die:
Nor feel the wild flowers blow, nor birds dart by
With flitting butterfly,
Nor grass grow long above our heads and feet,
Nor hear the happy lark that soars sky high.
To shut our eyes and die:
Nor feel the wild flowers blow, nor birds dart by
With flitting butterfly,
Nor grass grow long above our heads and feet,
Nor hear the happy lark that soars sky high.
