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Written by sermon delivered in 1910
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Wednesday, 11 October 2006 |
DEATH IS NOTHING AT ALL
Henry Scott Holland
Canon of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London 1847-1918
“Death is nothing at all.
I have only slipped away into the next room.
I am I and you are you.
Whatever we were to each other that we are still.
Call me by my old familiar name
Speak to me in the easy way which you always used
Put no difference in your tone
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow
laugh, as we always laughed
At the little jokes we enjoyed together
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was
Let it be spoken without effort
Without the ghost of a shadow on it
Life means all that it ever meant
It is the same as it ever was
There is absolute unbroken continuity.
What is death but a negligible accident?
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you, for an interval,
Somewhere very near
Just around the corner.
All is well.
Nothing is past; nothing is lost
One brief moment and all will be as it was before
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!
From a sermon on death delivered in St. Paul’s Cathedral in 1910 while the
body of King Edward VII was lying in state at Westminster. This is on the
most visited page of www.poeticexpressions.co.uk
~reprinted from Bereaved Parents USA Fall 2006 Newsletter
http://www.bereavedparentsusa.org/BP_NatlNews.htm
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