Funeral Blues - W. H. Auden from sun gos Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 1 min 52 sec
✓ Published: 10-Jul-2008

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Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,nPrevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,nSilence the pianos and with muffled drumnBring out the coffin, let the mourners come.nnLet aeroplanes circle moaning overheadnScribbling 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.nnHe 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 th