Call me by my old familar name, Speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference in your tone, wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed At the little jokes we enjoy together. Pray smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word it always was, Let it be spoken without effect Without the trace of a shadow upon it.
Life means all that it ever was, There is an unbroken continuity.
I am waiting for you for an interval, somewhere very near, Just around the corner. All is well.