If I should Die Tonight

If I should die tonight and you should come

And stand beside my bier and weep

I wonder could I feel your tears and hear your sobs

In deaths long sleep.

If I should die tonight

And round my bier would gather great and small

And great should murmur o’er my corpse a chant

And spread choice flowers there

‘Twould make no difference.

And then, if small or poor

Should shed a tear and sigh “A friend”

Methinks my soul would lighter bear

Upon its tired wings.

Written by Ida May Schaffer

March 17, 1928