If I should go before the rest of you, Break not a flower, nor inscribe a stone, Nor, when I'm gone, speak in a Sunday voice, But be the usual selves That I have known. (Joyce Grenfell)

If I should go before the rest of you, Break not a flower, nor inscribe a stone, Nor, when I'm gone, speak in a Sunday voice, But be the usual selves That I have known.

Joyce Grenfell

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