Mary kept the belt of love, and oh, but she was gay! She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away. - William Allingham

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 Think of me as withdrawn into the dimness, yours still, you mine.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.

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods
And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

Out of the city, far away
With spring to-day!
Where copses tufted with primrose
Give me repose,
Wood-sorrel and wild violet
Soothe my soul's fret.