| Autumn
Rain
Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die.
Unknown
Requiem
Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you gave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Old Irish Toast
May you have food and raiment,
A soft pillow for your head,
May you be forty years in heaven
Before the devil knows you're dead.
The Best
God saw you getting tired,
And a cure was not to be,
So He put His arms around you
And whispered "Come to Me".
With tearful eyes we watched you,
and saw you pass away.
Although we loved you dearly,
We could not make you stay.
A Golden Heart stopped beating,
Hard working hands to rest,
God broke our hearts to prove to us,
He only takes the best
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Grieve
Not For Me
Grieve not for me
nor mourn the while,
for happier would I be
to see you smile.
Let no tears fall
since I have passed away
but miss me and
remember me each day.
Live your lives
as I would want you to,
and treat your fellowman
as I would do.
And when the time has come,
your lives be through,
I shall be waiting here
for each of you.
After Glow
I'd like the memory of me
to be a happy one.
I'd like to leave an after glow
of smiles when life is done.
I'd like to leave an echo
whispering softly down the ways,
Of happy times and laughing times
and bright and sunny days.
I'd like the tears of those who grieve,
to dry before the sun
of happy memories
that I leave when life is done.
'What the caterpillar perceives is the end, to the butterfly is
just the beginning'
'Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace
with that and all will be well'
Buddhist saying
"Say not in grief 'he is no more' but live in thankfulness
that he was"
Hebrew proverb
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