POEM GORDON READS AT WAYNES FUNERAL

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss and I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous & happy.  I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts and in the hearts of their descendants and generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done and is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.