不要在我的坟墓前哭泣

Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am in a thousand winds that blow,
I am the softly falling snow.
I am the gentle showers of rain,
I am the fields of ripening grain.
I am in the morning hush,
I am in the graceful rush
Of beautiful birds in circling flight,
I am the starshine of the night.
I am in the flowers that bloom,
I am in a quiet room.
I am in the birds that sing,
I am in each lovely thing.
Do not stand at my grave bereft
I am not there. I have not left.


由来： 歌的来源，是一首英文诗。作者名字及写作时间已经不详，但最有根据的是在1932年，在美国马里兰州巴尔的摩市，一位名为Mary Elizabeth Frye (1905-2004) 的主妇，为了同居友人Margaret Schwarzkopf的母亲过世而写的作品。诗本身并无名字，一般人就以其第一句「Do not stand at my grave and weep」来命名。 诗的原意是纪念逝去的近亲，在95年，英国一名青年在爱尔兰共和军袭击下牺牲，临死前把一封信交给父母，请他们在他离世后打开，信内就是这一首诗，经过传媒的报导后，得到广泛的回响。而到了2001年，美国的911恐怖袭击事件后，在一个追悼仪式中，1名11岁的少女在会中读出此诗，以表达她对在911事件中丧生的父亲的追思，使此诗再一次成为话题。

2003 年，日本小说家兼歌手，「芥川赏」得主新井满，把此诗译为日文版本，并取诗中第三行「I am a thousand winds that blow」的意思，把诗命名为「千の风になって」，再谱上歌曲及唱出，在MAXI SINGLE「千の风になって a thousand winds」上发表。 2006年的NHK红白歌会中出场的美声男歌手秋川雅史以一曲《化为千风》勇夺2007年1月22日公布的ORICON公信单曲排行榜首位，这是古典歌手首次夺冠。该曲最初在06年5月从唱片《威风堂堂》中列出作为单曲出售。在ORICON公信排行榜首次登场时居100位以下，但决定在红白歌会中出场后排位逐渐上升，红白歌会结束后更是急速升至榜首位置。 秋川在接受J-CAST新闻采访时称，“刚出CD的时候想都没想过能够进入ORICON公信排行榜，所以不但进入前10名而且还夺冠时我非常出乎意料。红白歌会的时候得到很多人的帮助因而能够以超常状态演唱，可能是当时那种集中精力的状态传达给观众了吧。这首曲子虽然是为去世的人唱的歌，但决不灰暗，积极、让人充满对新生活的希望。以后，为了让这首歌能够被更多的人接受，我要拿出120%的努力继续演唱。”

Mary Frye, who was living in Baltimore at the time, wrote the poem in 1932. She had never written any poetry, but the plight of a young German Jewish woman, Margaret Schwarzkopf, who was staying with her and her hu*****and, inspired the poem. She wrote it down on a brown paper shopping bag. Margaret Schwarzkopf had been concerned about her mother, who was ill in Germany, but she had been warned not to return home because of increasing anti-semitic unrest. When her mother died, the heartbroken young woman told Frye that she never had the chance to “stand by my mother’s grave and shed a tear”. Frye found herself composing a piece of verse on a brown paper shopping bag. Later she said that the words “just came to her” and expressed what she felt about life and death. Mary Frye circulated the poem privately. Because she never published or copyrighted it, there is no definitive version. She wrote other poems, but this, her first, endured. Her obituary in The Times made it clear that she was the author of the famous poem, which has been recited at funerals and on other appropriate occasions around the world for seventy years.

The poem was introduced to many in Britain when it was read by the father of a soldier killed by a bomb in Northern Ireland. The soldier's father read the poem on BBC radio in 1995 in remembrance of his son, having been left it in an envelope addressed 'To all my loved ones' in his personal effects. The authorship of the poem was established a few years later after an investigation by journalist Abigail Van Buren. There is a short illustrated book of the poem sometimes to be found in small-town bookshops with ink drawings for each line that includes this story in the inside dustjacket, written before the authorship was confirmed and therefore stating that the authorship is unknown.

Japanese Singer-songwriter Man Arai translated this poem into Japanese and composed the song "千の風になって" (translation: "Become A Thousand Winds"), originally sung by Man Arai himself. Although the album received little success, singers began to cover the song, among them, Japanese tenor Akikawa Masafumi The tenor made the song popular after performing it during the 57th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen on December 31, 2006. In January 2007, it became the first classical music piece to top the Oricon weekly singles chart and became the first classical music piece to top the Oricon yearly singles chart of 2007. Another version is of Hayley Westenra in her album Hayley sings Japanese Songs in the year 2008 (with the title Sen No Kaze Ni Natte.)