Leia-Eulogy

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ON THE DEPARTURE OF LEIA

“Happiness came briefly, when one thought

of the cessation of her suffering,

but then grief dogged right up along behind.

“Yesterday was a feast, but today became the month of deepest mourning .

“Easier than the sadness and solace of this day,

Would be the coming of the morning of judgment.

“Ah! the Queen of the realm and the soul of it has passed away,

My scarred heart has become a house of mourning.

“O Alderaan, the lover of your soul has moved on,

She who sighed at thy troubles has passed away.

“O Jedi, the protective wings of the Force have been lifted from around you,

She who sympathized with the last of you has gone.

“But: Leia Organa cannot be dead as her good name yet remains,

is this not the life to whomever the Force gives it ?

“May the deceased receive abundant her heavenly reward,

and may we show goodly patience, in the warm embrace of her memory”

entitled ‘Tears of Blood’, from which we give a few lines above.

The Queen died on the last day of Winter Solstice,

and a Jedi on duty at the temple that morning anonymously wrote this in the logbook.

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