Gekämpft, gehofft, und doch verloren, nun ruhe sanft, du gutes Herz,
dich leiden sehen und nicht helfen können war unser allergrößter Schmerz.

Fighting, hoping, and yet losing, now gently rest, dear heart,
to see you suffer and not be able to help was our greatest grief of all.

Wenn die Kraft zu Ende geht, ist Erlösung eine Gnade.

When strength is gone, deliverance is an act of mercy.

Nicht das Freuen, nicht das Leiden stellt den Wert des Menschen dar.
Immer nur wird das entscheiden was der Mensch dem Menschen war.

No rejoicing, and no sorrow shows the worth of a person.
The only thing that really counts is what the person meant to others.

Niemals geht man so ganz; ein Stückchen von ihr bleibt hier.

Never does one disappear completely; a bit of her stays here.

[Der Tod ist die] Grenze des Lebens, aber nicht der Liebe.

[Death is the] border of life, but not of love.

Death is nothing at all.
I have only slipped away into the next room.
I am I, and you are you.
Whatever we were to each other, that we still are.
Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way you used to.
Put no difference in your tone, wear no false air of solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Let my name be ever the household name it ever was, let it be spoken without effect, without the trace of a shadow on it.
Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was: there is unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner.
All is well.

Henry Scott Holland
1847-1918
Canon of St Paul's Cathedral