Updated September 23, 2019 | Infoplease Staff After DeathNow while my lips are living Their words must stay unsaid, And will my soul remember To speak when I am dead?Yet if my soul remembered You would not heed it, dear, For now you must not listen, And then you could not hear. Brewer's: Immortal American Indian Heritage Month Brewer's: New Testament .com/t/poetry/rivers-to-the-sea/after-death.html Sources Our Common Sources