Poems (Lassen)/A Request

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A REQUEST
WHEN I am dead and gone, Let there be no song,No flowers, pure and white, Or Vigils kept at night,When I am dead and gone.
Weep not, at my lone bier, E'en you, who hold me dear,Deem me at last blest To find the sleep of rest,When I am dead and gone.
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