Candice Schwartz

At a memorial service held at
Wynberg Girls' High on Thursday 9 March,
Mrs de Wet,
her English teacher,
read this piece written by

Harry Scott Holland
1847- 1918
Canon of St Paul's Cathedral.

All is Well

Death is nothing at all.
I have only slipped away into 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 in your tone,
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed
at the little jokes we enjoyed 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 on it.
Life means all it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was;
there is unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind
because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you,
for an interval,
somewhere very near,
just round the corner.

All is Well

... friends, teachers

and her former Principal from the Primary school,
Ms Anderson
spoke affectionately and warmly of her,
and encouragingly to friends
and members of her familly