Ernest Dowson | A Last Word

A poem about endings. Read by Wordman.
'Let us go hence: the night is now at hand;
The day is overworn, the birds all flown;
And we have reaped the crops the gods have sown;
Despair and death; deep darkness o'er the land,
Broods like an owl; we cannot understand
Laughter or tears, for we have only known
Surpassing vanity: vain things alone
Have driven our perverse and aimless band.
Let us go hence, somewhither strange and cold,
To Hollow Lands where just men and unjust
Find end of labour, where's rest for the old,
Freedom to all from love and fear and lust.
Twine our torn hands! O pray the earth enfold
Our life-sick hearts and turn them into dust.'
~ Ernest Dowson ~
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Original: "A Last Word" by Ernest Dowson, recited by The Wordman
Song: Xoary - Miniature
Footage:
Ingmar Bergman films.
- Persona (1966)
- The Seventh Seal, Det sjunde inseglet (1957)
- Fanny & Alexander, Fanny och Alexander (1982)
Wikipedia: Ernest Christopher Dowson was an English poet, novelist, short-story writer, often associated with the Decadent movement.
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[@marycrow3939]

Stuart Merrill, the great American poet who live in France and wrote exclusively in French, and who may well have known Dowson, since Merrill ran in the same literary circles, so to speak, being loosely classified as a decadent poet, wrote:
Always living and dying, living and dying.
Is it not Nothingness pure that delivers us!
To live and to die, o Time, dying and living:
Until the suns are extinguished we will have to suffer!

[@RichardDanielli]

Thank you good sir
And remember - Don't panic and to always bring your towel...