Hold the Vision to Our Hearts

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.

A sunset, a mountain bathed in moonlight,

the ocean in calm and in storm — we see these,

love their beauty, hold the vision to our hearts.

All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Our beloved ones are no more lost to us when they die

than if they were still laughing and loving

and working and playing at our side.

Truly, life is overlord of Death

and Love can never lose its own.