"Immortality" by CLARE HARNER, Topeka, Kansas

 

Immortality 

Below is the version published in The Gypsy of December 1934 (page 16), under the title "Immortality" and followed by the author's name and location: "CLARE HARNER, Topeka, Kan."[1]: 424  The indentation and line breaks are as given there.     Do not stand

          By my grave, and weep.

     I am not there,

          I do not sleep—

I am the thousand winds that blow

I am the diamond glints on 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 rush

Of quiet birds in circling flight,

I am the day transcending night.

     Do not stand

          By my grave, and cry—

     I am not there,

          I did not die.

— Clare Harner, The Gypsy, December 1934

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Do Not Stand at my Grave and Weep 

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