Quiet Dead! + 

Quiet, quiet dead, + 

Have ye aught to say + 

From your hidden bed + 

In the earthy clay? + 

Fathers, children, mothers, + 

Ye are very quiet; + 

Can ye shout, my brothers? + 

I would know you by it! + 

Have ye any words + 

That are like to ours? + 

Have ye any birds? + 

Have ye any flowers? + 

Could ye rise a minute + 

When the sun is warm? + 

I would know you in it, + 

I would take no harm. + 

I am half afraid + 

In the ghostly night; + 

If ye all obeyed + 

I should fear you quite. + 

But when day is breaking + 

In the purple east + 

I would meet you waking⁠— + 

One of you at least⁠— + 

When the sun is tipping + 

Every stony block, + 

And the sun is slipping + 

Down the weathercock. + 

Quiet, quiet dead, + 

I will not perplex you; + 

What my tongue hath said + 

Haply it may vex you! + 

Yet I hear you speaking + 

With a quiet speech, + 

As if ye were seeking + 

Better things to teach: + 

“Wait a little longer, + 

Suffer and endure + 

Till your heart is stronger + 

And your eyes are pure⁠— + 

A little longer, brother, + 

With your fellow-men: + 

We will meet each other + 

Otherwhere again.” + 