“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Think of me as withdrawn into the dimness,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.”

Poem: No funeral gloom - part of funeral of actress Ellen Terry 1928.

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Irish man of letters and poet 1824–1889

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