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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I love the indentations and line breaks of the original when first published:

    Do not stand
              By my grave, and weep.
         I am not there,
              I do not sleep—
    I am the thousand winds that blow
    I am the diamond glints in snow
    I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
    I am the gentle, autumn rain.
    As you awake with morning’s hush,
    I am the swift, up-flinging rush
    Of quiet birds in circling flight,
    I am the day transcending night.
         Do not stand
              By my grave, and cry—
         I am not there,
              I did not die.

    — Clare Harner, The Gypsy, December 1934