Indifference

 When I am dead I will not care
 Forever more,
If sky be radiantly fair
 Or tempest roar.
If my life-hoard in sin be spent,
 My wife re-wed,--
I'll be so damned indifferent
 When I am dead.

When I meet up with dusty doom
 What if I rest
In common ditch or marble tomb,
 If curst or blest?
Shall my seed be to wealth or fame,
 Or gallows led,--
To me it will be all the same
 When I am dead.

So say for me no pious prayer,
 Be no tear shed;
In nothingness I cannot care,
 I'll be so dead.
I shall not reck of war or peace
 When I go hence:
Lord, let me win sublime release,--
 INDIFFERENCE!

Form: Lyric

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