"No funeral gloom, my dears, when I am gone, corpse-gazing, tears, black raiment, graveyard grimness. Think of me as withdrawn into the dimness, yours still, you mine. Remember all the best of our past moments, and forget the rest; and so to where I wait, come gently on."
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Poem: No funeral gloom - part of funeral of actress Ellen Terry 1928.
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William Allingham
William Allingham (19 March 1824 – November 18, 1889) was an Irish man of letters and poet.
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