I Shall Come Back

 I shall come back without fanfaronade
Of wailing wind and graveyard panoply;
But, trembling, slip from cool Eternity-
A mild and most bewildered little shade.

I shall not make sepulchral midnight raid,
But softly come where I had longed to be
In April twilight's unsung melody,
And I, not you, shall be the one afraid.


Strange, that from lovely dreamings of the dead
I shall come back to you, who hurt me most.

You may not feel my hand upon your head,
I'll be so new and inexpert a ghost.

Perhaps you will not know that I am near-
And that will break my ghostly heart, my dear.

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