The soldiers father read the poem on BBC radio in 1995 in remembrance of his son, who had left the poem among his personal effects in an envelope addressed To all my loved ones. The poem was introduced to many in the United Kingdom when it was read by the father of a soldier killed by a bomb in Northern Ireland. In addition, while there had been considerable anti-semitism in Germany back in 1932, the Nazis did not win power till 1933, weakening the veracity of Freys story which was never corroborated.
However, other, similar versions of this poem had been circulating for some time and were sometimes found in tombstones prior to when Frye claimed to have written the poem, and Frye did not produce any real evidence that she actually wrote this work. Her obituary in The Times stated that she was the author of the famous poem, which has been recited at funerals and on other appropriate occasions around the world for 60 years. She wrote other poems, but this, her first, endured. Later she said that the words "just came to her" and expressed what she felt about life and death.įrye circulated the poem privately, never publishing it. Frye, according to Van Burens research, found herself composing a piece of verse on a brown paper shopping bag. When her mother died, the heartbroken young woman told Frye that she never had the chance to "stand by my mothers grave and shed a tear". Margaret Schwarzkopf was concerned about her mother, who was ill in Germany, but she had been warned not to return home because of increasing unrest.
According to Van Burens research, Frye had never written any poetry, but the plight of a German Jewish woman, Margaret Schwarzkopf, who was staying with her and her husband, had inspired the poem. Dear Abby author Abigail Van Buren researched the poems history and concluded in 1998 that Mary Elizabeth Frye, who was living in Baltimore at the time, had written the poem in 1932. There have been many claimants to the poems authorship, including attributions to traditional and Native American origins.
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