‘Dont Quit’ by John Greenleaf Whittier.

Don’t Quit: Instruction or inner voice?

A poem pinned poignantly to his fridge.
I weighed each word, line by line.

DW had just taken his life.

DW was an avid rower.

His ashes greet the tide at Putney Bridge on the River Thames.

… Dead quiet,

Decoupled from flesh;

Life drifts on