 H.D. visited the United States in 1960 to collect an American Academy of Arts and Letters medal . Returning to Switzerland , she suffered a stroke in July 1961 and died a couple of months later in the Klinik Hirslanden in Zürich . Her ashes were returned to Bethlehem , and were buried in the family plot in the Nisky Hill Cemetery on October 28 , 1961 . Her epitaph consists of the following lines from her early poem " Let Zeus Record " : 
