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 still are |
Call me by my 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 |
Pray, smile, think of me, pray for
me |
Let my name be forever the household
word that it always was |
Let it be spoken without effect, without
the trace of a shadow on it |
Life means all that it ever meant |
It is the same as it ever was, there
is unbroken continuity |
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. |
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