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To: RoosterRedux
Yeah. Just curl up and die when you get old, eh?

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

22 posted on 01/27/2023 6:41:37 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative
Thanks so much for posting the entire classic poem. I've not read it since high school lit class!

Leni

27 posted on 01/27/2023 6:48:02 AM PST by MinuteGal
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To: usconservative

Ditto that!;-)


47 posted on 01/27/2023 7:17:38 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: usconservative

BTTT! ;-)


110 posted on 01/27/2023 12:09:39 PM PST by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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