Away With Funeral Music by Robert Louis Stevenson

AWAY with funeral music – set
The pipe to powerful lips –
The cup of life's for him that drinks
And not for him that sips.

More from Robert Louis Stevenson:

• Thrawn Janet
• The Waif Woman
• The Sire de Maletroit’s Door
• The Sea Fogs
• The Scientific Ape
• The Clockmaker