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and children. But always there was at his heartstrings a tug towards the land of his adoption. In a letter to a friend, written a few months before his death, he said: “The idea has come to me that I should like my ashes, for I contemplate cremation rather than burial, to be interred in
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death, was gratified when he was able to spend a short holiday on the island two years before his death, (in 1936) already a very sick man who knew that the end was not far off.
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Here I stand in spirit, as in body once I stood Long years ago, in love with all the land, This peerless land of beauty's plenitude
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