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Does anyone recognise this funeral blessing?

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movingonbackwards · 01/11/2019 19:05

There's an Irish phrase (blessing? Not sure exactly) I've heard at the end of a couple of funerals. I can't remember the start but it's along the lines of "we said he's gone.. the angels said here he comes".
The priest said it in Irish first. Trying to google but I cannot remember enough of it to get a result!

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hopeishere · 01/11/2019 19:07

I Am Standing Upon The Seashore
I am standing upon the seashore.
A ship at my side spreads her white
sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean.
 
She is an object of beauty and strength.
I stand and watch her until at length
she hangs like a speck of white cloud
just where the sea and sky come
to mingle with each other. 

Then, someone at my side says;
"There, she is gone!" 
"Gone where?"
Gone from my sight. That is all.
She is just as large in mast and hull
and spar as she was when she left my side
and she is just as able to bear her
load of living freight to her destined port.
Her diminished size is in me, not in her. 

And just at the moment when someone
at my side says, "There, she is gone!"
There are other eyes watching her coming,
and other voices ready to take up the glad shout;
"Here she comes!"
And that is dying.

I love this. I heard it at a friends funeral.

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ChicCroissant · 01/11/2019 19:09

I've got a short poem somewhere about death where the end is something about taking up the cry they are home. I'll see if I can find it later.

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ChicCroissant · 01/11/2019 19:10

Oh, it might be the one that's just been posted by hope

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MrsGrindah · 01/11/2019 19:11

I’m in floods now! That’s beautiful.

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UrsulaPandress · 01/11/2019 19:13

😰

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movingonbackwards · 01/11/2019 20:58

That wasn't the one I was looking for but that is absolutely beautiful. Thank you

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