Funeral blues (1940)
(Wystan Hugh Auden)
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 aeroplane circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Tie crepe bows round the white necks of the
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