Sonnet V: If I should learn

If I should learn, in some quite casual way,
  That you were gone, not to return again--
Read from the back-page of a paper, say,
  Held by a neighbor in a subway train,
How at the corner of this avenue
  And such a street (so are the papers filled)
A hurrying man--who happened to be you--
  At noon to-day had happened to be killed,
I should not cry aloud--I could not cry
  Aloud, or wring my hands in such a place--
I should but watch the station lights rush by
  With a more careful interest on my face,
Or raise my eyes and read with greater care
Where to store furs and how to treat the hair.