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Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you gave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
After the service
Words like these often stay with us long after the funeral. Some families also find comfort in a keepsake at home: an urn, a cuddle stone to hold, or jewellery with a little of their ashes inside.
One morning I found you in eternal sleep; I tried to wake you as I began to weep, But all my pleas you could not
If I only had five minutes the day you passed away, I would have had time to tell you all the things I needed to
A long funeral poem written by Edwin Leibfreed. Extracts from The Song Of The Soul would be suitable for a loved one’s funeral service.
The most famous of the ‘metaphysical’ poets, John Donne wrote this poem in 1611, after leaving his wife to travel to the continent. The poem
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