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 EAD ! Roger the true, dearest and noblest of all men; Ruler and helper and guide; my brother and friend in one. Roger, it is not like you, leaving me here in the battle ; Did you not say you would fight — I, sing when the strife was done ? How can I sing, O Roger, since thus is the conflict won ? Surely I need you, brother, more than they need you in heaven, — They who have all things good, and I who had only you; How shall I live without you, hardening, old, and lonely ? Nobody cares, as you cared, what manner of things I do. What if you should not know me, at last when we meet, we two ?