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Padraic Colum (1881–1972). Anthology of Irish Verse. 1922.

By Padraic Pearse

170. To Death

I HAVE not gathered gold;

The fame that I won perished;

In love I found but sorrow,

That withered my life.

Of wealth or of glory

I shall leave nothing behind me

(I think it, O God, enough!)

But my name in the heart of a child.