“Death Is Nothing At All”（死亡微不足道）

 

图/弗莱厄蒂选区办公室    Christine Elliontt和弗莱厄蒂在一起

 

在前财政部长弗莱厄蒂的国葬上，他的遗孀、安省保守党副党领Christine Elliott用英国诗人Henry Scott Holland的诗作为悼词的结语，表达对弗莱厄蒂的感情。

 

Christine Elliotthe和弗莱厄蒂既是生活上的伴侣，也是政治上的伙伴。从政前，两人都是律师。

 

 

Death is nothing at all.

I have only slipped away to the next room.

I am I and you are you.

Whatever we were to each other,

That, we still are.

Call me by my old familiar name.

Speak to me in the easy way 

which you always used.

Put no difference into your tone.

Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

 

Laugh as we always laughed

at the little jokes we enjoyed together.

Play, smile, think of me. Pray for me.

Let my name be ever the household word

that it always was.

Let it be spoken without effect.

Without the trace of a shadow on it.

 

Life means all that it ever meant.

It is the same that it ever was.

There is absolute unbroken continuity.

Why should I be out of mind

because I am out of sight?

 

I am but waiting for you.

For an interval.

Somewhere. Very near.

Just around the corner.

 

All is well.