Can anyone help?? (Funeral problem)?

Question

I need help with a eulogy for an ex soldier who passed away. The main part is done but i need a final line or two that would be fitting and sum up his life.
Can anyone help.

I'm asking here as it normally gets the most sensible answers..

Answer 1

Something along the lines of: 'and though during life he faced war (hardship), in the end he found peace'.

Answer 2

This poem is called "To An Athlete Dying Young" and was written by A. E. Houseman

"The time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.

To-day, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.

Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay,
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.

Eyes the shady night has shut
Cannot see the record cut,
And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After earth has stopped the ears:

Now you will not swell the rout
Of lads that wore their honours out,
Runners whom renown outran
And the name died before the man.

So set, before the echoes fade,
The fleet foot on the sill of shade,
And hold to the low lintel up
The still-defended challenge-cup.

And round that early-laurelled head
Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,
And find unwithered on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl's."

Use it all or choose 3 or 4 of the verses.

Answer 3

if you do a search under fallen comrades, it comes up with quite a few poems or quotes from WW1 mostly but some of them are quite poignant and may be appropriate. You could try taking a line or two from some of those. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

Read psalm 23

Answer 5

i have walked through darkness and suffering, light, joy and happiness. i wait now in light and joy until we meet again, my family and friends.