1:22:03
I hope joyful is how
you will remember him.
1:22:08
Not stuck in a box in a church.
1:22:14
Pick your favourite of his waistcoats
and remember him that way.
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The most splendid, replete,
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big-hearted
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- weak-hearted, as it turned out -
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and jolly bugger most of us ever met.
1:22:35
As for me, you may ask
how I will remember him.
1:22:40
What I thought of him.
1:22:46
Unfortunately, there I run out of words.
1:22:52
Forgive me
if I turn from my own feelings
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to the words of another
splendid bugger, WH Auden.
1:23:00
This is actually what I want to say:
1:23:06
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
1:23:11
Prevent the dog from barking
with a juicy bone,
1:23:16
Silence the pianos
and with muffled drum
1:23:19
Bring out the coffin,
let the mourners come.
1:23:25
Let the aeroplanes circle
moaning overhead
1:23:28
Scribbling on the sky the message
He ls Dead.
1:23:34
Put crepe bows round the white necks
of the public doves,
1:23:40
Let traffic policemen
wear black cotton gloves.
1:23:45
He was my North, my South,
my East and West.
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My working week and my Sunday rest,
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My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;