A Song of Living

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. 
I have sent up my gladness on wings, to be lost in the 
blue of the sky.
I have run and leaped with the rain,
I have taken the wind to my breast.
My cheek like a drowsy child
to the face of the earth I have pressed.
Because I have loved life,
I shall have no sorrow to die.

by Amelia Josephine Barr