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what is a good, happy poem or quote relating to the death or a loved one?

My boyfriend died February 7, 2008. I have the first flowers that were outside his spot in the mausoleum and I was going to engrave something on a vase and give them to his mother....i want something happy not sad, but I want it to relate..... it can be a poem or a quote or anything like that but nothing to long.... thanks for your help

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1. The time we've spent in this great life, has been the test of wrong or right You gave us joy for many years peaceful now, no more tears Be free.
2. The poem below was posted by someone on Yahoo Answers a year ago and I think it is a comforting poem to read in a time of loss. It is a little long for a vase, but perhaps you could give it to her with the flowers. Parable of Immortality by Henry Van Dyke - 1852 - 1933 I am standing by the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength, and I stand and watch until at last she hangs like a peck of white cloud just where the sun and sky come down to mingle with each other. Then someone at my side says, 'There she goes! Gone where? Gone from my sight - that is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and just as able to bear her load of living freight to the places of destination. Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says, 'There she goes! ' , there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout : 'Here she comes!'
3. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death. ~Leonardo da Vinci