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In Memory of my Mother
who died one sunny morning July 14th, 1984
Eileen Jean Carroll
3rd May 1944 - 10th July 1984
Death is nothing at all.
I have 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.
Pray, 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 trace of a shadow in 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.
Somewhere very near
Just around the corner.
All is well
(Henry Scott Holland)
Canon of St Paul's Cathedral
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