For Margaret Thatcher

Selections from the Order of Service for Margaret Thatcher as published by The Telegraph.

What we call the beginning is often the end 

And to make an end is to make a beginning. 

The end is where we start from. 

We die with the dying: 

See, they depart, and we go with them. 

We are born with the dead: 

See, they return, and bring us with them. 

The moment of the rose and the moment of the yew-tree 

Are of equal duration. A people without history 

Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern 

Of timeless moments. So, while the light fails 

On a winter’s afternoon, in a secluded chapel 

History is now and England. 

With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling 

We shall not cease from exploration 

And the end of all our exploring 

Will be to arrive where we started 

And know the place for the first time.

"Little Giddings" (1942) from Four Quartets - T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)

The Iron  Lady was a welcomed swing in the pendulum of politics for Great Britain. She will be remembered fondly in the coming centuries.