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On That Day

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On that day     I shall put roses on roses, and cover your grave     With multitude of white roses: and since you were brave          One bright red ray.          So people, passing under     The ash-trees of the valley-road, will raise     Their eyes and look at the grave on the hill, in wonder,          Wondering mount, and put the flowers asunder          To see whose praise     Is blazoned here so white and so bloodily red.     Then they will say: "'Tis long since she is dead,          Who has remembered her after many days?"          And standing there     They will consider how you went your ways     Unnoticed among them, a still queen lost in the maze          Of this earthly affair.          A queen, they'll say,     Has slept unnoticed on a forgotten hill.     Sleeps on unknown, unnoticed there, until          Dawns my insurgent day.

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