Early Works - May I Bid You Farewell

You’re here but a short time never knowing how short time is, but you live for lasting forever because that is the only way to live. You do not think of the black hours or groups of circular bouquets but of living forever little by little each day. A smile that brought gayety is silent on a face still you rest so peacefully away from harm and ill, if there be a better world then you are surely there for people like you in our troubled time we find are so rare, so before the closing silence may I bid you farewell. 2 October 1979