Click here to read the full poem The verse was sent into the palace on a memorial ... It formed a preface to the order of service, and began: "You can shed tears that she is gone or you can smile ...

The 12-line poem, which starts "You can shed tears that she is gone/Or you can smile because she has lived" reflected the monarch's call to celebrate the Queen Mother's life. But efforts to trace ...

It's just someone making a point in a very banal way." Mystery poem You can shed tears that she is gone or you can smile because she has lived. You can close your eyes and pray that she'll come ...

THE order of service will be prefaced by this anonymous poem chosen by the Queen Mother herself. You can shed tears that she is gone or you can smile because she has lived. You can close your eyes ...

"You can shed tears that she is gone ... The final two lines of the Queen Mother's own little poem say it all: "You can close your eyes and pray that she will come back, or you can open your ...