If I should die

If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's breathing, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

Rupert Brooke

If I should die and leave you here awhile,
Be not like others, sore undone, who keep
Long vigils by the silent dust, and weep.
For my sake -- turn again to life and smile,
Nerving thy heart and trembling hand to do
Something to comfort other hearts than thine.
Complete those dear unfinished tasks of mine
And I, perchance, may therein comfort you.

This was read by Lady Sarah McCorquodale at the funeral of her sister, Diana, Princess of Wales, on 6 September 1997. It is a poem by A. Price Hughes and was traditionally spoken at Spencer family funerals.

If I should die to-night
And you should come to my cold corpse and say,
Weeping and heartsick o'er my lifeless clay--

If I should die to-night,
And you should come in deepest grief and woe--
And say: "Here's that ten dollars that I owe,"

I might arise in my large white cravat

And say, "What's that?"

If I should die to-night
And you should come to my cold corpse and kneel,
Clasping my bier to show the grief you feel,

I say, if I should die to-night
And you should come to me, and there and then
Just even hint 'bout payin' me that ten,

I might arise the while,

But I'd drop dead again.

--Ben King