When my mother passed on, I received a letter from a friend, a Christian Scientist, whose mother and husband had both passed on within a few months of each other.
In Genesis we read that Adam and Eve were sent from the Garden of Eden because they had disobeyed God by eating fruit from the forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Surely no bird sangThere was no squeaking of the hunting batNor rustling of lizardAt the cave's mouthIn the waiting gardenAt that momentWhen Lazarus came blindlyFrom the grave.