The memorial card for Charles Haughey has been sent out to friends and sympathisers in the same week as the publication of the Moriarty tribunal report into the financial affairs of the former taoiseach.
The card quotes the Thomas Davis poem My Grave.
Thousands of the memorial cards were sent earlier this week to those who had sympathised with the Haughey family after the death of the former taoiseach last June.
The card includes a photograph of a smiling Mr Haughey under the heading:
"In Loving Memory of Charles J Haughey, Abbeville, Kinsaley, Co Dublin."
Under the photograph is a quote from the Psalms:
Happy the man who delights in the law of the Lord
And meditates on His law day and night.
He is like a tree planted near running water
That yields its fruit in due season, and whose leaves shall never fade.
One side of the card quotes the Thomas Davis poem My Grave, in full. It reads:
Shall they bury me in the deep
Where wind-forgetting waters sleep?
Shall they dig a grave for me
Under the greenwood tree?
Or on the wild heath,
Where the wilder breath
Of storm doth blow?
Oh, no! oh no!
No! on an Irish hillside
or an opening lawn, but not too wide;
For I love the drip of the wetted trees -
I love not the gales, but a gentle breeze,
To freshen the turf; put no tombstone there,
but green sods, decked with daisies fair;
nor sods too deep, but so that the dew,
The matted grass roots may trickle through.
Be my epitaph writ on my country's mind;
HE SERVED HIS COUNTRY, AND LOVED HIS KIND
Oh! 'twere merry unto the grave to go,
if one were sure to be buried so.
