I am i and you are you.
I am only in the next room funeral poem.
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
I have used it many times as well as an enclosure in a sympathy letter.
Death is nothing at all.
Speak to me in the easy way which you always used.
Call me by my old familiar name speak to me in the easy way which you always used.
Put no difference into your tone.
I have only slipped into the next room i am i and you are you whatever we were to each other that we are still.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.
I have only slipped into the next room.
Whatever we were to each other that we are still.
I am i and you are you.
I am i and you are you.
I have only slipped away to the next room.
This poem is often read at funerals.
The author henry scott holland 1847 1918 a priest at st.
Whatever we were to each other that we are still.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.
I am i and you are you and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched unchanged.
Call me by my old familiar name.
I have only slipped away to the next room.
I have only 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 same easy way which you always did put no difference into your tone.
Speak of me in the easy way which you always used.
Call me by my old familiar name.
I am i and you are you.
Whatever we were to each other that we still are.
A short funeral poem by helen lowrie marshall about happy memories living on after a loved one has gone.
Call me by the old familiar name.
Everything remains exactly as it was.
Paul s cathedral of london did not intend it as a poem it was actually delivered as part of a sermon in 1910.
Whatever we were to each other that we still are.
Death is nothing at all canon henry scott holland uk 1847 1918.
All is well is a very moving funeral poem by henry scott holland.
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Death is nothing at all canon henry scott holland uk 1847 1918 death is nothing at all.
I have only slipped away into the next room.
Put no difference in your tone wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.