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An irishman foresees his death poem?

The Parting Glass

(Traditional Irish Folk Song)

Of all the money that e'er I had,

I spent it in good company,

And all the harm that e'er I did

Was drunk in generosity.

I have a brown mistress, but who can deny,

How lovely she looks in her own native dye,

But now I must leave her, and go far away,

And die in somebody else's arms.

But if at five in the morning,

when I am gone,

You'll call me my true love,

and give me a dram,

I shall mount the wind, and flee to your side,

My ghost will sleep in the arms I died.

So fill to me the parting glass,

Good people, let's drink a toast to me,

You may forget the life that was,

But in life I loved you all.

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