If you would please me when I've passed away <br />Let not your grief embitter you. Be brave; <br />Turn with full courage from my mounded grave <br />And smile upon the children at their play; <br />Let them make merry in their usual way; <br />Do not with sorrow those young lives enslave <br />Or steal from them the fleeting joys they crave; <br />Let not your grieving spoil their happy day. <br />Live on as you have lived these many years, <br />Still let your soul be gentle and be kind — <br />I never liked to see those eyes in tears! <br />Weep not too much that you must stay behind; <br />Share in the lives of others as you'd share, <br />If God had willed it still to leave me there.<br /><br />Edgar Albert Guest<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if-you-would-please-me/
