Death is nothing at all Death is nothing at all, I have only slipped away to the next room, I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, We still are. Call me by my old familiar mane, Speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Put no differences onto your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together Play, smile, think of me and pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without effort, 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 absolute 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 round the corner. All is well