Thanks to everyone who has responded. Those quotations by Emma and freda seem the most likely; I didn't write in my original post that, like John MacKenzie, although I'm not a Christian I nevertheless have a good deal of "Bible Knowledge", at least of the most poetic parts such as those quoted above, but obviously the minister who conducted the funeral years ago had chosen something less familiar but appropriate to the person. I'm already going to do my best to sing a song which, years ago, my father mentioned (on hearing it on Television one January 25th) he would like done at his own funeral, Robert Burns's "The Lea-Rig". Anyway, thanks for the time taken.

Robert