Away With Funeral Music

Robert Louis Stevenson· 1850 – 1894· Scottish

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Away With Funeral Music

Robert Louis Stevenson

AWAY with funeral music - set

The pipe to powerful lips -

The cup of life's for him that drinks

And not for him that sips.

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