Gold and Silver thread,

delicately braided around a 1ft long tube

made of a strange white-metal.

"Do not stand at my grave and weep

I am not there, I do not sleep.

And as wake with morning’s hush,

I am the swift, uplifting rush

Of quiet birds in circling flight,

I am the day transcending night."

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“Do not stand at my grave and cry;

I am not there. I did not die.”