A time has come that had been expected,
\nA time that all may expect, and all must succumb to;
\nBut a time that few will embrace so graciously,
\nAnd with such honour and remembrance as our friend.<\/p>\n
That time arrived and passed all but unnoticed.
\nThough expected and accepted,
\nIt was unanticipated so soon.
\nThat unnoticed moment, though alone it passed,
\nHeralded a farther reaching and much greater
\nPortion of time in which his
\nLoved and loving friends
\nWill have only the memory,
\nNo more the company;
\nOnly the love,
\nNo more his laughs;
\nOnly the friendship,
\nNo more the friend;
\nOnly the Light,
\nNo more this life.<\/p>\n
Never did he move a mountain,
\nBut never did he Shadow the Light.
\nHere is not appropriate
\nFor discussion of the virtues,
\nNor the discussion of the health,
\nOf the history or the vices,
\nFor virtues are virtues,
\nAnd vices, vices:
\nHistory was set,
\nAnd could not be changed,
\nAny more than could a future. <\/p>\n
But we, his loved and loving friends,
\nNeed not discuss what we all knew:
\nHis love, his Light, and his Life,
\nFor all we knew we always have.
\nAnd we, his loved and loving friends,
\nNeed discuss more what we have:
\nOur own Love, our Light, and our Life,
\nFor that which we have is his always.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A time has come that had been expected,
A time that all may expect, and all must succumb to;
But a time that few will embrace so graciously,
And with such honour and remembrance as our friend.<\/p>\n
That time arrived and passed all but unnoticed.
Though expected and accepted,
It was unanticipated so soon.
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