Oh, let it be a night of lyric rain
And singing breezes, when my bell is tolled
I have so loved the rain that I would hold
Last in my ears its friendly, dim refraln
I shall lie cool and quiet, who have lain
Fevered, and watched the book of day unfold
Death will not see me flinch; the heart is bold
That pain has made incapable of pain

Kinder the busy worms than ever love
It will be peace to lie there, empty-eyed
My bed made secret by the leveling showers
My breast replenishing the weeds above
And you will say of me, "Then has she died?
Perhaps I should have sent a spray of flowers."