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  2. You can shed tears that she is gone - Wikipedia

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    [1] Harkins said that he had originally written the poem down in the margin of his copy of Dylan Thomas' verse Once It Was The Colour Of Saying, but after reading of its use at the Queen Mother's funeral had removed the page and sent it as a gift to Prince Charles, who thanked him. [3] [2]

  3. Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep - Wikipedia

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    A common reading at funerals and remembrance ceremonies, the poem was introduced to many in the United Kingdom when it was read by the father of a soldier killed by a bomb in Northern Ireland. The soldier's father read the poem on BBC radio in 1995 in remembrance of his son, who had left the poem among his personal effects in an envelope ...

  4. Funeral Blues - Wikipedia

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    The introduction to a 2000 poetry anthology published by Miles Kelly Publishing credited the poem's reading in Four Weddings and a Funeral with showing how poetry could be "cool". [16] In 2013 "Funeral Blues" was described by the English scholar Abbie Garrington as "perhaps Auden's best‐known work". [17] The poem is often read as a memorial.

  5. Tyre Nichols’ godsister reads heartbreaking poem at funeral

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    Tyre Nichols's godsister read out a heartbreaking poem at his funeral service as he was laid to rest in Memphis. LaToya Yizar, who says she is the daughter of Nichols’ godmother, continued to ...

  6. Gone From My Sight - Wikipedia

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    Gone From My Sight", also known as the "Parable of Immortality" and "What Is Dying" is a poem (or prose poem) presumably written by the Rev. Luther F. Beecher (1813–1903), cousin of Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. At least three publications credit the poem to Luther Beecher in printings shortly after his death in 1904. [1]

  7. High Flight - Wikipedia

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    The poem is often read at funerals of aviators; [4] portions of the poem appear on many of the headstones in the Arlington National Cemetery, and it is inscribed in full on the back of the Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial. It is displayed on panels at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, the National Air Force Museum of Canada, in Trenton, Ontario.

  8. Love letter Jimmy Carter wrote to Rosalynn 75 years ago read ...

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    Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter’s daughter read a love letter her father wrote aloud at her mother’s funeral on Tuesday 28 November. The 75-year-old love letter was written by the former president ...

  9. Last Post (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Henry Allingham in 2007 "Last Post" is a poem written by Carol Ann Duffy, the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, in 2009.It was commissioned by the BBC to mark the deaths of Henry Allingham and Harry Patch, two of the last three surviving British veterans from the First World War, and was first broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 programme Today on 30 July 2009, the date of Allingham's funeral.

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