Dylan Thomas, And death shall have no dominion
And death shall have no dominion
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan't crack;
And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.
It is such a shame that a man of that kind of talent should have drunk himself to death. Yet he must have known for death plays a large part in a lot of his work.
ReplyDelete"Do not go gently into the night" is a masterpiece.
Many men of talent and sensitivity towards Beauty have not been able to stand the Greatness of their Inner Perception...
ReplyDeleteDeath, Life, Dark and Light all in his Soul, dear Janice...
However, a Great Poet Mr. Dylan