- Our loss
- Is gain in other times.
- Our hopes on future bent
- Must then depend on incidents like these
- For bodies wear
- And in
- The fine grist mill of time
- Are spent in service such
- As yours
- And go, our time by smallest time
- Into the yesterday, wherein began
- The conquest of Eternity
- What did we know
- When yesterday we wept?
- What grip upon us had our ignorance
- That we in our conceit did feel
- That all of us were mortal here
- And lives once led were spent
- And wasted on our selfish selves.
- How narrow is such scope
- To feel that we
- Should be eternally
- The goal of all the toil
- And wretchedness
- From birth to death
- And like a play
- The curtain dropped
- And left an empty stage.
- How dull of us to feel that we
- Were all the target of this strife
- And that we lived but once
- And living then did reconcile
- The whole in one brief life.
- Oh no, a wider drama here
- Was planned and staged
- And we with narrowness of mind
- Did overlook the plan.
- We said that all is
- Mortal flesh
- The spirit just a thing
- To send, for pence
- To some strange heaven
- There to waste its skill
- Or had we not the price
- To some deep other place
- To pain, and waste again
- The life.
- To what dark depths
- Were dropped our minds
- To feel that flesh
- Why this is no sad and
- Bleakish look
- No sorrowed thing
- This life.
- This an adventure pure
- Where without knife or
- Provender we leap
- Aloft into eternity
- And span forever in a breath.
- This is adventure where
- We step from tie to
- Body tie
- And go
- Our way.
- Our suff’ring is
- Self centered here
- For we have lost
- In truth
- The smile,
- The touch,
- The skill and happiness
- We gained
- From Liz,
- Who gave to us
- From her past
- Ability to live
- And fare against
- The tides and storms of fate
- It is true we’ve lost
- Her shoulder
- Up against the wheel
- And lost as well her counsel
- And her strength
- But lost them
- Only for a while.
- She goes
- Not with the dismal roll drum
- But with a whisper like
- A Faery’s sigh
- To smooth the way
- For when we come.
- She’ll be in some good
- Future time
- And future place
- Her smile
- Her touch
- Her skill
- Invested there to make
- A way for life.
- True, true we may not
- Know her then and
- Only know her work
- But still
- If we sent not ahead
- Our vedettes into time
- We would not have
- A race.
- And so, branched off from
- Goodbye, Liz.
- Your people thank you for having lived
- Earth is Better for your having lived
- Men, women and children are alive today
- Because you lived.
- We thank you for coming to us.
- We do not contest your
- Right to go away.
- Your debts are paid
- This chapter of thy life is shut
- Go now, dear Liz and live once more
- In happier time and place.
- Thank you, Liz.
- All now here lift up
- Your eyes and say to
- Her
- Goodbye.
- (Congregation) Goodbye.
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- Is capable of love or trust or livingness
- To feel that fingernails and masks
- Are all we need to dream.
- To what deep place
- Did our love go
- That mass could recompense?
- Anxieties that ruled our years
- Were nurtured here
- And we
- Made blind and numb
- By other greed
- Spanned down our lives
- To One.
- What waste!
- To feel that all our love
- Our work,
- Our gifts,
- Our knowledge and our
- Sighs
- Were meant
- To be consumed
- All in one
- Breath and flash
- And by one name?
- Today, come wiser now
- The chains gone weak
- And tyranny of cult
- Gone tired with the years,
- We look
- We find we live
- Not once
- But on and on
- From body’s birth to
- Body’s grave and then
- To birth again
- And yea to grave again
- So to dispose possessions
- Oft come undone
- With livingness.
- From century to century
- From age to age and on
- We go in march along
- The path that leads
- Forever up the countless
- Tick of time.
- We crawl, we walk, we fly
- We win
- From here and evermore
- The heritage of all our lives
- And spend it once again.
- This
- Genetic Line
- And into some new
- Corner or new world
- We’ve sent you, Liz
- And there there’ll be
- We know it now,
- A smile,
- A touch,
- A happiness for us
- And you
- You could not find
- On earth
- And so it turns
- The day, the year,
- The age.
- And so we go
- With banners furled
- And quietly
- Upon our way.
- But now we know
- And now we’ll find
- The Way.
- Into the dark
- Has come the light
- Into tomorrow
- Enters night
- Into heaven
- Go no more
- Into life our
- Spirits soar
- Conquering ever
- Wisdom’s store
- We do not tremble
- Faced with death
- We know that living
- Is not breath.
- Prevail!
- Go, Liz
- And take
- The life
- That offers now
- And live
- In good expectancy
- That we
- Will do our part.
- Go, Liz
- You can control
- That which you must.
- Our loss
- Is gain
- In wisdom and in skill
- To future dates and other smiles
- And so we send into the
- Chain of all enduring time
- Our heritage
- Our hope
- Our friend.
- Goodbye, our dear
- Goodbye.
- We’ll miss you, you know.
- Let the body now
- Draw away
- To be consumed to ashes
- And to dust
- In earthly and in cleanly fire
- To be no more, no more.
- And that is done.
- Come friends,
- She is all right
- And she is gone.
- We have our work
- To do. And she has hers.
- She will be welcome there.
- To Man!
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