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Слушать(AI)When I Have Passed Away
When I have passed away and am forgotten, And no one living can recall my face,
When under alien sod my bones lie rotten With not a tree or stone to mark the place;
Perchance a pensive youth, with passion burning, For olden verse that smacks of love and wine,
The musty pages of old volumes turning, May light upon a little song of mine,
And he may softly hum the tune and wonder Who wrote the verses in the long ago;
Or he may sit him down awhile to ponder Upon the simple words that touch him so.
Claude McKay
Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay (September 15, 1889[1] – May 22, 1948) was a Jamaican writer and poet, and was a central figure in the Harlem Ren
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