[00:00.24]Funeral Blues
[00:01.92]by W. H. Auden
[00:03.90]Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
[00:13.84]Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
[00:19.09]Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
[00:23.72]Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
[00:29.28]Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
[00:34.83]Scribbling on the sky the message 'He is Dead'.
[00:40.68]Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
[00:45.93]Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
[00:50.65]He was my North, my South, my East and West,
[00:57.84]My working week and my Sunday rest,
[01:01.75]My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
[01:07.66]I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
[01:14.59]The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
[01:21.92]Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
[01:26.29]Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
[01:30.99]For nothing now can ever come to any good.