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In Memoriam A.H.H.

         
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      Do we indeed desire the dead
          Should still be near us at our side?
          Is there no baseness we would hide?
      No inner vileness that we dread?

      Shall he for whose applause I strove,
          I had such reverence for his blame,
          See with clear eye some hidden shame
      And I be lessen’d in his love?

      I wrong the grave with fears untrue:
          Shall love be blamed for want of faith?
          There must be wisdom with great Death:
      The dead shall look me thro’ and thro’.

      Be near us when we climb or fall:
          Ye watch, like God, the rolling hours
          With larger other eyes than ours,
      To make allowance for us all.
       


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