IN the film "Carve Her Name With Pride," which, as I recall, was made during or soon after the war, and was recently shown on TV, there was a poem known as the Code Poem, as the film was concerned with the French Resistance movement, and Odette Churchill.

The poem is as follows:

The life that I have, is all that I have,

And the life that I have is yours.

The love that I have of the life

That I have is yours and yours and yours.

A sleep I shall have

A rest I shall have

Yet death will be but a pause

For the peace of my years in the long green grass

Will be yours and yours and yours.

I think of this poem, and feel that Diana - as the thoughtful and caring girl she was - may just have been saying something similar to us all, and even trying to comfort us all.

I think the words are lovely - and it was just a thought that occurred to me.

MRS E CARR, Redvers Road, Darwen.

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