Posthumous + 

Of what avail the tardy showers, + 

To the famished summer flowers? + 

All in vain the rain-drops cry, + 

Dead things never make reply. + 

Life’s belated cup of bliss, + 

Woo the weary lips to kiss, + 

When the singing is a sigh, + 

Pulses quivering, to die. + 