Funerals can truly be augmented by a poem that is apt and fitting for the person you have just lost. The following list of funeral poems about climbing are perfect for those who enjoyed the challenges of rock climbing, hiking, and fell-walking.
I Hold The Heights
by Geoffrey Winthrop Young
I have not lost the magic of long days,
I live them, dream them still
Still I am a master of the starry ways,
And freeman of the hills;
Shattered my glass, ere half the sands had run.
I hold the heights, I hold the heights, I won.
What if I live no more those kingly days?
Their night sleeps with me still.
I dream my feet upon the starry ways;
My heart rests in the hill.
I may not grudge, the little left undone.
I hold the heights, I keep the dreams I won.
I’m Climbing A Mountain
by Andrew Blakemore
I’m climbing a mountain
I reach out to touch the blue sky,
This feeling of freedom
Will live with me until I die.
I’m climbing a mountain
I feel the cool breeze on my face,
And the sun’s beating down
I’m forever at home in this place.
I’m climbing a mountain
I stop just to gaze at the view,
So clear the horizon
Like my every dream has come true.
I’m climbing a mountain
I feel like a bird in the air,
I’m gliding and soaring
And feel like I haven’t a care.
I’m climbing a mountain
The blue sky is turning to gold,
The sunset so peaceful
Such beauty is there to behold.
So We’ll Go No More A-Climbing
Author Unknown; adapted from the original by Lord Byron
So we’ll go no more a-climbing
So late into the night,
Though the will be ne’er unyielding,
And the urge be still as bright.
For the rock outwears the man,
And cruel Time wears out the best,
But memories were made upon those stones,
Before you were laid to rest.
Though the day was made for scaling,
And the dusk gathers too soon,
You and me’ll go no more a-climbing
By the light of the moon.
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