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THE LIFE THAT I HAVE

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 wonder what led Chelsea and her husband to include Leo Marks' poem, The Life That I Have in their wedding ceremony. A pretty poem, but what an unusual choice! The short piece is a work by a British cryptographer from World War II, who made his codes harder by using his own poems. This one was in a movie about the French agent Violette Szabo, who received the coded message from Marks. The poem was featured in the biopic Carve Her Name With Pride. There's also a movie about the bookstore co-owned by Marx's father, called 84 Charing Cross Road.