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In life our absent friend is far away: / But death may bring our friend exceeding near, / Show him familiar faces long so dear / And lead him back in reach of words we say. / He only cannot utter yea or nay / In any voice accustomed to our ear; / He only cannot make his face appear / And turn the sun back on our shadowed day. / The dead may be around us, dear and dead; / The unforgotten dearest dead may be / Watching us, with unslumbering eyes and heart, / Brimful of words which cannot yet be said, / Brimful of knowledge they may not impart, / Brimful of love for you and love for me.