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Stop all the         cut off the telephone,

the          barking      a juicy bone,

the pianos and      muffled

Bring out the coffin, let the          come.

moaning

Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,

Put crepe      round the white       of the public doves,

the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and

My working week and my Sunday rest,

My noon, my midnight, my       my song;

I thought that                 for       I was wrong.

The stars     not        now: put out       one;

Pack up the moon and           the

Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.

For nothing now can      come to