By Teacher Patricia Adams

(Dedicated to the late
Atlin Harrigan, OBE)

Eternal slumber
Is now your gracious gift
For the sleepless nights of your life,
When constitutions and commerce,
Justice and education
Capital and health
Seized your every waking breath.

Mrs. Patricia Adams

The late Atlin Harrigan

Peace and silence
Now engulf you.
You who solved and resolved
Countless physical and mental wars
Of our nation.

Sleep on!
Sleep on!

The indentation of your footprints
Has awakened us
To paths that lead to victory.

Mountain tops may be cold and grey
But oh! They massage the stars.
You, now cold and grey
Once beckoned us to climb to the mountain top.
There we beheld the stars,
And there we realized our dreams.

So in phenomenal gratitude we loudly whisper
Sleep on
Sleep on
Sleep on!

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