Can someone please help me find this poem for my grandmothers funeral?
Here is the poem. I wish you the best and I am very sorry for your families loss. I hope this helped. she is just away by james whitcomb riley AWAY I can not say, and I will not say That she is dead. – She is just away! With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand, She has wandered into an unknown land, And left us dreaming how very fair It needs must be, since she lingers there. And you – O you, who the wildest yearn For the old-time step and the glad return, – Think of her faring on, as dear In the love of There as the love of Here; And loyal still, as she gave the blows Of her warrior-strength to her children’s foes. – Mild and gentle, as she was brave, – When the sweetest love of her life she gave To simple things: – Where the violets grew Blue as the eyes they were likened to, The touches of her hands have strayed As reverently as her lips have prayed: When the little brown thrush that harshly chirred Was dear to her as the mocking-bird; And she pitied as much as someone in pain A
