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Thank you! www.thelightbeyond.com Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep Foreword ........................................................................................................................1 A final tribute: writing and delivering a eulogy........................................................... 2 The poems, readings and quotations .......................................................................... 4 Abide With Me.............................................................................................................. 4 Accepting The Universe............................................................................................... 5 Address To The Living ................................................................................................. 5 After I Have Gone ........................................................................................................ 5 Afternoon In February .................................................................................................. 6 After The Burial ............................................................................................................ 7 Afterwards.................................................................................................................... 9 from All Lovely Things.................................................................................................. 9 All The Things He Loved.............................................................................................. 9 All Things Decay And Die .......................................................................................... 10 from All Things Will Die.............................................................................................. 10 Always Saying Farewell ............................................................................................. 11 Ashes Of Life ............................................................................................................. 11 As You Love Me......................................................................................................... 12 At A Child’s Grave...................................................................................................... 13 Away .......................................................................................................................... 14 The Beauty Of Death ................................................................................................. 14 Bereavement.............................................................................................................. 16 Be Still My Soul.......................................................................................................... 17 Be Swift To Love........................................................................................................ 17 The Beyond................................................................................................................ 18 Borrowed Hope .......................................................................................................... 18 Break, Break, Break................................................................................................... 19 Brief Our Days ........................................................................................................... 19 The Bustle In A House ............................................................................................... 20 But Not Forgotten....................................................................................................... 20 The Cactus................................................................................................................. 20 Chalice Lighting ......................................................................................................... 21 Clean Is The Autumn Wind ........................................................................................ 21 The Clock Of Life ....................................................................................................... 21 A Common Destiny .................................................................................................... 22 The Cost .................................................................................................................... 22 Crossing The Bar ....................................................................................................... 23 from Cymbeline.......................................................................................................... 23 The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, Is Ended....................................................................... 24 The Dead ................................................................................................................... 24 Dear Lovely Death ..................................................................................................... 25 Death, Be Not Proud.................................................................................................. 25 Death Cannot Destroy Love....................................................................................... 25 Death Can Show Us The Way ................................................................................... 26 Death Has Taken Thee Too....................................................................................... 26 Death, In Itself, Is Nothing.......................................................................................... 26 Death Is A Challenge ................................................................................................. 26 www.thelightbeyond.com Death Is But An Intermission...................................................................................... 26 Death Is Nothing At All............................................................................................... 27 Death Stands Above Me ............................................................................................ 27 Death This Year ......................................................................................................... 27 Desiderata.................................................................................................................. 28 A Different Self........................................................................................................... 28 Dirge Without Music................................................................................................... 29 The Divine Weaver .................................................................................................... 30 Do Everything For God .............................................................................................. 30 Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night .................................................................... 31 Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep......................................................................