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William Cranston Lawton (1853–1941)

Departure

NOT as in prison pent,

Not as a spirit sent

To baser banishment,

I tarried well content

The body’s guest.

Whithersoe’er I fly,

Let me not wholly die!—

Yet He who shall deny

Or grant this parting cry

Knows which is best.

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