Song, by W.H. Auden

vendredi 22 août 2014
par Me Esse

Read the poem :

- Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
- Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
- Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
- Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

- Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
- Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
- Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
- Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

- He was my North, my South, my East and West,
- My working week and my Sunday rest,
- My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song ;
- I thought that love would last for ever : I was wrong.

- The stars are not wanted now : put out every one ;
- Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun ;
- Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
- For nothing now can ever come to any good.

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