honest_johns | Another OOC post

We've posted snippets of the gunslingers' prayer for the dead periodically, and occasionally large chunks of it, but I'm not sure the whole thing has ever been posted. (Maybe in the Tim's funeral thread; I'm too lazy to check now.) Anyway, Star was asking for it, for reference. So here it is, as we see it in canon. This is Roland's translation from the High Speech, by the way, said over Jake's grave, and the only version we ever see; Roland thinks of it as "a prayer for the dead he had heard Cuthbert speak on their last campaign together, the one that had ended at Jericho Hill."

Time flies, knells call, life passes, so hear my prayer.
Birth is nothing but death begun, so hear my prayer.
Death is speechless, so hear my speech.
This is Jake, who served his ka and his tet. Say true.
May the forgiving glance of S'mana heal his heart. Say please.
May the arms of Gan raise him from the darkness of the earth. Say please.
Surround him, Gan, with light.
Fill him, Chloe, with strength.
If he is thirsty, give him water in the clearing.
If he is hungry, give him food in the clearing.
May his life on this earth and the pain of his passing become as a dream to his waking soul, and let his eyes fall upon every lovely sight; let him find the friends that were lost to him, and let every one whose name he calls call his in return.
This is Jake, who lived well, loved his own, and died as ka would have it.
Each man owes a death. This is Jake. Give him peace.