All is Well
Henry Scott Holland
1847 to 1918
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Death is nothing at all.
I have only slipped ______ to the next room.
I am I and you ______ you.
Whatever we were to each other,
That, we ______ are.
Call me by my old familiar name.
Speak ______ me in the easy way
which you always used.
______ no difference into your tone.
Wear no forced air ______ solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed
at ______ little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me. Pray for me.
Let my name be ever the ______ word
that it always was.
Let it be spoken ______ effect.
Without the trace of a shadow on it.
______ means all that it ever meant.
It is the ______ that it ever was.
There is absolute unbroken continuity.
______ should I be out of mind
because I am ______ of sight?
I am but waiting for you.
For ______ interval.
Somewhere. Very near.
Just around the corner.