Broken Chain We little knew that morning that God was going to call your name. In life we loved you dearly, in death we do the same. It broke our hearts to lose you, you did not go alone; for part of us went with you the day God called you home. You left us […]
Early Death She passed away like morning dew Before the sun was high; So brief her time, she scarcely knew The meaning of a sigh. As round the rose its soft perfume, Sweet love around her floated; Admired she grew-while mortal doom Crept on, unfeared, unnoted. Love was her guardian Angel here, But Love to […]
Epitaph On A Child Here, freed from pain, secure from misery, lies A child, the darling of his parents’ eyes: A gentler lamb n’er sported on the plain, A fairer flower will never bloom again: Few were the days allotted to his breath; Now let him sleep in peace his night of death. Thomas Gray […]
I’ll Lend You a Child “I’ll lend you for a little time a child of Mine.” He said. “For you to love the while he lives And mourn for when he’s dead. It may be six or seven years Or twenty-two or three, But will you, till I call him back, Take care of him […]
She Is Gone (Remember Me) You can shed tears that she is gone, Or you can smile because she has lived You can close your eyes and pray that she will come back, Or you can open your eyes and see all that she has left Your heart can be empty because you can’t see […]
Songs of The Death of Children You must not shut the night inside you, But endlessly in light the dark immerse. A tiny lamp has gone out in my tent – I bless the flame that warms the universe. Friedrich Ruckert German poet and translator (1788 – 1866)
Silent Tear Each night we shed a silent tear, As we speak to you in prayer. To let you know we love you, And just how much we care. Take our million teardrops, Wrap them up in love, Then ask the wind to carry them, To you in heaven above. —Unknown
To Daffodils Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attain’d his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the evensong; And having pray’d together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have […]