"Elegy Before Death"

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There will be rose and rhododendron

   When you are dead and under ground;

Still will be heard from white syringes

   Heavy with bees, a sunny sound;

Still will the tamaracks be raining

   After the rain has ceased, and still

Will there be robins in the stubble,

   Brown sheep upon the warm green hill.

Spring will not ail nor autumn falter;

   Nothing will know that you are gone,

Saving alone some sullen plough-land

   None but yourself sets foot upon;

Saving the may-weed and the pig-weed

   Nothing will know that you are dead,—

These, and perhaps a useless wagon

   Standing beside some tumbled shed.

Oh, there will pass with your great passing

   Little of beauty not your own,—

Only the light from common water,

   Only the grace from simple stone!

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Thank you to read, With love from @radhikapatel