{"id":5018,"date":"2010-02-03T22:50:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T14:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=5018"},"modified":"2010-02-03T22:56:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T14:56:33","slug":"the-famous-funeral-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/02\/the-famous-funeral-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Famous Funeral Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the most poignant poems I ever read, followed by some related sentiments:
\n(The above is a scene from ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral):<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Funeral Blues (Stop All the Clocks) by\u00a0W.H. Auden<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
\nPrevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
\nSilence the pianos and with muffled drum
\nBring out the coffin, let the mourners come.<\/p>\n

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
\nScribbling on the sky the message He is Dead.
\nPut crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
\nLet the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.<\/p>\n

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
\nMy working week and my Sunday rest,
\nMy noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
\nI thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.<\/p>\n

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
\nPack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
\nPour away the ocean and sweep up the woods;
\nFor nothing now can ever come to any good.<\/p>\n

It is Not the End<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is not the end of the world,
\nwhen it is the end of a life;
\nit is the beginning of another life,
\nin ‘another’ world.<\/p>\n

The best way to honour a relationship
\nis not by despair that it is lost,
\nbut to be grateful for what it was worth.<\/p>\n

It is not the end of a relationship,
\nwhen it is the end of a life;
\nit is but the temporal suspension of it,
\ntill another time.<\/p>\n

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