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If I should cease to bring a Rose

If I should cease to bring a Rose

Upon a festal day,

'Twill be because beyond the Rose

I have been called away -

If I should cease to take the names

My buds commemorate -

'Twill be because Death's finger

Claps my murmuring lip!

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