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[Allie Mc]

He disappeared in the dead of winter



When I'm a veteran with only one eye

I shall do nothing but look at the sky.



The consul banged the table and said,

"If you've got no passport you're officially dead"



If equal affection cannot be,

Let the more loving one be me.



Starving through the leafless wood

Trolls run scolding for their food;

And the nightingale is dumb,

And the angel will not come.



Yet law-abiding scholars write:

Law is neither wrong nor right,

Law is only crimes

Punished by places and by times,

Law is the clothes men wear

Anytime, anywhere,

Law is Good-morning and Good-night.







и, наконец, целиком прославленное Ньюэллом:



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 crЁЁpe bows round the white necks of the public doves,

Let the traffic policeman 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 forever: 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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[Galadriel]

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