NEW YEAR'S EVE.
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x.
If I can I'll come again, mother, from out my resting-place;
Tho' ye'll not see me, mother, I shall look upon your face;
Tho' I cannot speak a word, I shall harken what ye say,
And be often—often with ye when ye think I'm faraway.
If I can I'll come again, mother, from out my resting-place;
Tho' ye'll not see me, mother, I shall look upon your face;
Tho' I cannot speak a word, I shall harken what ye say,
And be often—often with ye when ye think I'm faraway.
xi.
Goodnight, goodnight, when I have said goodnight for evermore,
And ye see me carried out from the threshold of the door;
Don't let Effie come to see me till my grave be growing green:
She'll be a better child to you than ever I have been.
Goodnight, goodnight, when I have said goodnight for evermore,
And ye see me carried out from the threshold of the door;
Don't let Effie come to see me till my grave be growing green:
She'll be a better child to you than ever I have been.
xii.
She'll find my gardentools upon the granary floor:
Let her take 'em: they are her's: I shall never garden more:
She'll find my gardentools upon the granary floor:
Let her take 'em: they are her's: I shall never garden more:
