<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div><b>“Death Is Nothing At All”</b> by Henry Scott-Holland</div><div><br></div><div>Death is nothing at all. </div><div>It does not count. </div><div>I have only slipped away into the next room. </div><div>Nothing has happened. </div><div><br></div><div>Everything remains exactly as it was. </div><div>I am I, and you are you, </div><div>and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. </div><div>Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. </div><div><br></div><div>Call me by the old familiar name. </div><div>Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. </div><div>Put no difference into your tone. </div><div>Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. </div><div><br></div><div>Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together.</div><div>Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. </div><div>Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. </div><div>Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. </div><div><br></div><div>Life means all that it ever meant. </div><div>It is the same as it ever was. </div><div>There is absolute and unbroken continuity. </div><div>What is this death but a negligible accident? </div><div><br></div><div>Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? </div><div>I am but waiting for you, for an interval, </div><div>somewhere very near, </div><div>just round the corner. </div><div><br></div><div>All is well. </div><div>Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost. </div><div>One brief moment and all will be as it was before. </div><div>How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again !</div></div><div><br></div>———————————————-<br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares"</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></body></html>