| By all accounts this is the original text of this touching poem by Mary Frye. The other version is the better known, but this is the original... |
| Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep 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 the birds that sing I am in each gentle thing. Do not stand at my grave and cry. I am not there. I did not die |
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| I know which one I prefer, and this is it |
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| Mary Frye |