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Augustin S. Macdonald, comp. A Collection of Verse by California Poets. 1914.

By Isabel Pixley

When I Am Gone

WHEN I am gone and the grass grows green

O’er the couch where I’m laid to rest,

Will you seek that spot, with a kindly thought

For the one that loved you best?

If you do, and you shed but a single tear,

Though I cannot stretch forth my hand,

A violet blue shall smile up at you

To tell you I understand.