Immortality ; HARNER LYON Clare

Immortality
 
Do not stand
   By my grave, and weep.
I am not there,
  I do not sleep—
 
I am the thousand winds that blow,5
I am the diamond glints in snow,
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle, autumn rain,
As you awake with morning's hush,
I am the swift, up-flinging rush10
Of quiet birds in circling flight,
I am the day transcending night.
 
Do not stand
  By my grave, and cry—
I am not there,15
  I did not die.
Clare HARNER LYON