Musings
[This poem is the first stanza of a three-stanza poem called "Musings" by Hannah M. Bryant, published in The Oasis: or, Golden Leaves of Friendship edited by N. L. Ferguson (Lowell, Massachusetts: N. L. Dayton, 1852).]
Speak quietly
My name, when I rest with the dead.
Tread lightly
The turf that lies over my head.
Plant flowers
To bloom in the place where I sleep
And willows,
Whose branches shall over me weep.