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If I Should Go, by Joyce Grenfell



If I should go before the rest of you,
break not a flower nor inscribe a stone,
nor, when I am gone, speak in a Sunday voice,
but be the usual selves that I have known.

Weep, if you must; parting is hell,
but life goes on, so sing as well.

Joyce Grenfell

 
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