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Abide with me
then i will fear not
that journey to that far off land
where sorrows cease and all is peace.

What sweet content
to have you near me
where I may clasp thine hand so gentle
and gaze into your faithful eyes.

Abide with me
then i will fear not
that journey to that far off land
where sorrows cease and all is peace.

Quite possibly the furthest 'translation' from the German text, but the best capture of the sentiment, I feel.

1 Year on, and I still need a teddy bear or I wake up crying.

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Current Mood: sad
Current Music: bist du bei mir - not by Bach at all

I turnedf on my computer this morning, opened winamp, put my music on random and hit play.

I get:

1) My choir singing Souverne Vous (asking the Virgin Mother to keep us safe, sort of a Hail Mary deal)
2) Evanescence - My Immortal (I try so hard to tell myself that you're gone. Though you're still with me, I've been alone for so long)
3) Nick Cave etc - Death is not the End
4) Elton John - Last Song (between a father and his son) - (all about dying and the importance of having your loved ones near.)

So...I start my 'relax and make myself beautiful' day in tears.

At least I have an eye pack to reduce puffiness and under eye circle...it might help.

Jo: got the final ruling. She's questioning the figures they came to, but it was a good compromise...pay up to the hearing only. She says that should be 1 wee more than she'd paid already, LL reckons 3.

Current Mood: melancholy

Well, Perdita's gone. We took her to the vet on Sunday. She was so sick and weak that she could barely walk, couldn't eat at all and hadn't purred properly in at at least a week.

Before we went she asked me to sing a song for her (long and complicated explanation of asking that I'd rather not go into right now):

Bist du bei mir
geh ich mit Freuden
zum sterben und zu meiner ruh.
Ach, wie vergnűgt wär so mein Ende,
es drűkten deine schőnen hände
mir die getreuen augen zu.

I had to get one of the other postgrads on my floor to translate it, cause I could see that the English words didn't quite match up. Apparently my cat understood German.

Roughly translated:
Are you with me?
Do I go with friends to my death and my rest?
Ah, how content would be my end
as your gentle hands close my faithful eyes.

After I sang it for her (badly, with plenty of missed notes and pauses to regain my breath), she climbed up onto my chest, gave me a 'kiss' and purred properly (but weakly) for the first time in ages.

I held her as they gave her the injection and cuddled her for about half an hour as she died and well after. Then I gently closed her faithful eyes.

Current Mood: sad
Current Music: bach - Bist du bei mir

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Entries tagged with perdita

I'll see you in the clearing at the end of the path, little one.

It's been 2 months exactly

Bist du bei mir

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