What Will They Do? + 

What will they do when I am gone? It is plain + 

That they will do without me as the rain + 

Can do without the flowers and the grass + 

That profit by it and must perish without. + 

I have but seen them in the loud street pass; + 

And I was naught to them. I turned about + 

To see them disappearing carelessly. + 

But what if I in them as they in me + 

Nourished what has great value and no price? + 

Almost I thought that rain thirsts for a draught + 

Which only in the blossom’s chalice lies, + 

Until that one turned back and lightly laughed. + 