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IF, AFTER DEATH
If, after death, my singing may be heardWithin the land of Shelley and of Keats—
The land that shook at vast-souled Milton's word,
The land that every morn its Shakespeare greets
Smiling and proud—if this my land repeats
My lady's name, my song, when I am dead
Crowned am I then for ever—yea, the red
Sunset of death as life eternal falls
Beaming around me, summons in its walls
My spirit glad beyond all mortal measure
Then at the great sweet death-voice as it calls;
Yea, if one song my land shall love and treasure,
Then am I deathless in the high domain
Whereover the dead deathless singers reign.
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