Do Not Stand at My Grave - The History - RE-REMIX

aka "I Am"
Originally untitled.
Mary Elizabeth Frye nee Clark was born in Dayton, Ohio, on November 13th 1905. She died on September 15th 2004. She was a housewife in Baltimore, Maryland when her friend, a German Jewish woman (some reports say young girl), called Margaret Schwarzkopf was unable to visit her dying mother in Germany due to the anti-Semitic turmoil there. This led to Margaret Schwarzkopf's tearful comment to Mary Frye, after a shopping trip, to say that she had been denied the chance to
"... stand at my mother's grave and say goodbye".
This prompt caused Mary Frye to write the verse there and then on a piece of paper torn from a brown paper shopping bag, on her kitchen table, while her distressed friend was upstairs. Mary Frye said the poem simply 'came to her'.

These are the original lyrics as confirmed in her interview with Kelly Ryan broadcast on CBC Radio in 2000:-

UNTITLED (1932)
Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am in a thousand winds that blow,
I am the softly falling snow.
I am the gentle showers of rain,
I am the fields of ripening grain.
I am in the morning hush,
I am in the graceful rush
Of beautiful birds in circling flight,
I am the starshine of the night.
I am in the flowers that bloom,
I am in a quiet room.
I am in the birds that sing,
I am in each lovely thing.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there. I do not die.

Ref:- http://www.businessballs.com/donotstandatmygraveandweep.htm

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