When I am dead I will not care <br /> Forever more, <br />If sky be radiantly fair <br /> Or tempest roar. <br />If my life-hoard in sin be spent, <br /> My wife re-wed,-- <br />I'll be so damned indifferent <br /> When I am dead. <br /> <br />When I meet up with dusty doom <br /> What if I rest <br />In common ditch or marble tomb, <br /> If curst or blest? <br />Shall my seed be to wealth or fame, <br /> Or gallows led,-- <br />To me it will be all the same <br /> When I am dead. <br /> <br />So say for me no pious prayer, <br /> Be no tear shed; <br />In nothingness I cannot care, <br /> I'll be so dead. <br />I shall not reck of war or peace <br /> When I go hence: <br />Lord, let me win sublime release,-- <br /> INDIFFERENCE!<br /><br />Robert William Service<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/indifference-2/
