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Thread #141561 Message #3258755
Posted By: open mike
17-Nov-11 - 10:49 AM
Thread Name: Poems, Songs, Readings for a Funeral?
Subject: RE: Poems, Songs, Readings for a Funeral?
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 sun 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 circling flight. I am the soft starlight at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.
Mary Frye, who was living in Baltimore at the time, wrote the poem in 1932.