This epitaph was written in Summer 1963, shortly before his own death in the November.
Remember
Helen Joy
Davidman
D. July 1960
Loved wife of C. S. Lewis
Here the whole world (stars, water, air,
And field, and forest, as they were
Reflected in a single mind)
Like cast off clothes was left behind
In ashes yet with hope that she,
Re-born from holy poverty,
In lenten lands, hereafter may
Resume them on her Easter Day.
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