On Tuesday the 9th of April 2002 the Funeral of
H.M. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
will take place in Westminster Abbey

The Gate of the Year

And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year:
‘Give ma a light, that I may tread safely into the unknown!’
And he replied:
‘Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God.
That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.’

So, I went forth and finding the Hand of God, trod gladly into
the night And He led me toward the hills and the breaking of
day in the lone East.

M. Louise Haskins

From ‘The Young Oxford Book of Christmas Poems’
Complied by Michael Harrison and Christopher Smart-Clark
First published 2000
Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press

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