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PRELIMINARY INSTRUCTIONS FOR A FUNERAL SERVICE; A POEM IN FOUR STANZAS by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: SAY THIS POOR FOOL MISFEATURED ALL HIS DAYS
Last Line: HE LIVES IN YOUR HEART, AS HE LIVES IN MINE.
Subject(s): FUNERALS; BURIALS;

SAY this poor fool misfeatured all his days,
And could not mend his ways;
And say he trod
Most heavily upon the corns of God.

But also say that in his clabbered brain
There was the essential pain --
The idiot's vow
To tell his troubled Truth, no matter how.

Unhappy fool, you say, with pitiful air:
Who was he, then, and where?
Ah, you divine
He lives in your heart, as he lives in mine.



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