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Joshua Shirah Obituary
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Memories and Condolences
for Joshua Shirah
2 Entries
Lindsey Leigh
June 28, 2010
Just looking at Josh's picture, you can tell that he was a young man that was loved dearly. I know you all miss him, but God needed him.
Death is Nothing At All
by Henry Scott Holland
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 which you always used,
Put no difference in your tone,
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow,
Laugh as we always laughed,
At the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Let my name be ever the household word that it always 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 that 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. Nothing is past, nothing is lost. One brief moment and all will be as it was before, only better, infinitely happier, and forever we will be together as one.
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