Henry Austin Dobson (1840 - ?) |English |
from The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900
| Arthur Quiller-Couch | ed 1919.
In after days when grasses high
O'er-top the stone where I shall lie,
Though ill or well the world adjust
My slender claim to honour'd dust,
I shall not question nor reply.
I shall not see the morning sky;
I shall not hear the night-wind sigh;
I shall be mute, as all men must
In after days!
But yet, now living, fain would I
That some one then should testify,
Saying—'He held his pen in trust
To Art, not serving shame or lust.'
Will none?—- Then let my memory die
In after days!