Inside Final Dreams

Do not stand at my grave and weep

I am not there, I do not sleep

I am a thousand winds that blow

I am the diamond glints on snow

I am the sunlight an ripened grain

I am the gentle autumn rain

I am the soft stars that shine at night

Do not stand at my grave and cry

I am not there

I did not die

When I the song of life have sung

My soul's relesaed, its flight begun

Do not stand with grief-bowed head

My soul's just free, I am not dead!

I'll wait beyond the silent wall

With the hordes who've gone before

I cannot heed your pleading call

My soul's been freed forever more

I've found a place of peace and quiet

And boundless beauty rare

The day's not broken by the night

There's naught of trouble anywhere

Rejoice, ye earth-bound one, with gathering

My soul is free inside my dreams

I will come down at night

To these resounding beaches

And the long gentle wind of the sea

Here for a single hour in the wide starlight

I shall be happy for the dead are free

And after many a summer dies the swan