If you come as softly / As wind within the trees / You may hear what I hear / See what sorrow sees. // If you come as lightly / as threading dew / I will take you gladly / nor ask more of you. // You may sit beside me / silent as a breath / only those who stay dead / shall remember death. // And if you come I will be silent / nor speak harsh words to you. / I will not ask you why, now. / Or how, or what you do. // We shall sit here, softly / beneath two different years / and the rich earth between us / shall drink out tears.