“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 woods;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.”

—  W. H. Auden

Funeral Blues (1936)

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Anglo-American poet 1907–1973

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