What will they do? by Edward Thomas — Read

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.