This piece touched me deeply as I feel that it is aligned with a Memorial Service and would indeed, be absolutely right for anyone with a love for the sea!! I really liked it because it rang a resonating bell in me to the fragility of men
I truly love this piece. I am not being facetious when I tell you that I have suggested it for my own funeral. I really mean it. However, my daughter has pointed out that as I have already chosen at least 15 songs, hymns, etc., and the allotted time is 15 minutes, it’s make your mind up time. I am not joking.
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On a lighter note.
Know the feeling well!! ****************************
To A Small Boy Standing On My Shoes While I Am Wearing Them!!
Let’s straighten this out, my little man, And reach an agreement if we can. I entered your door as an honored guest. My shoes are shined and my trousers are pressed, And I won’t stretch out and read you the funnies And I won’t pretend that we’re Easter bunnies. If you must get somebody down on the floor, What in the hell are your parents for? I do not like the things that you say And I hate the games that you want to play. No matter how frightfully hard you try, We’ve little in common, you and I. The interest I take in my neighbor’s nursery Would have to grow, to be even cursory, And I would that performing sons and nephews Were carted away with the daily refuse, And I hold that frolicsome daughters and nieces Are ample excuse for breaking leases. You may take a sock at your daddy’s tummy Or climb all over your doting mummy, But keep your attentions to me in check, Or, sonny boy, I will wring your neck. A happier man today I’d be Had someone wrung it ahead of me.
I truly love this piece. I am not being facetious when I tell you that I have suggested it for my own funeral. I really mean it. However, my daughter has pointed out that as I have already chosen at least 15 songs, hymns, etc., and the allotted time is 15 minutes, it’s make your mind up time. I am not joking.
You sound like me Sheila....
Ive had mine picked out for years, songs, Hymns, bible readings, the lot. Someones gonna have to made some decisions or my service will last all day!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Caledonia
Caledonia! thou land of the mountain and rock, Of the ocean, the mist, and the wind- Thou land of the torrent, the pine, and the oak, Of the roebuck, the hart, and the hind; Though bare are thy cliffs, and though barren thy glens, Though bleak thy dun islands appear, Yet kind are the hearts, and undaunted the clans, That roam on these mountains so drear!
A foe from abroad, or a tyrant at home, Could never thy ardour restrain; The marshall’d array of imperial Rome Essay’d thy proud spirit in vain! Firm seat of religion, of valour, of truth, Of genius unshackled and free, The muses have left all the vales of the south, My loved Caledonia, for thee!
Sweet land of the bay and wild-winding deeps Where loveliness slumbers at even, While far in the depth of the blue water sleeps A calm little motionless heaven! Thou land of the valley, the moor, and the hill, Of the storm and the proud rolling wave- Yes, thou art the land of fair liberty still, And the land of my forefathers’ grave!
