help me find a poem

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can anyone tell me which poem starts "Death is nothing at all"

-- Kerry Lee (gklee@netcomuk.co.uk), April 14, 1999

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or this other 'version'by unknown author . Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room. Whatever we were to each other, we still are. Call me by my old familiar name. Speak to me in the same easy way you always have. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it always was. There is absolute continuity. Why should I be out of your mind because I am out of your sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well. Nothing is past. Nothing has been lost.

-- ilza (ilza@pobox.com), April 14, 1999.

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 old familiar name Speak to me in the easy way which you always used 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 trace of a shadow on it. Life means all that it ever meant It is the same as it ever was There is absolutely unbroken continuity.

Why should I be out of mind because I am Out of sight? I am but waiting for you For an interval Somewhere very near Just around the corner

ALL IS WELL

By Canon Henry Scott Holland

-- ilza (ilza@pobox.com), April 14, 1999.


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