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Date: May 28, 2021 08:25AM
So sorry to read this this morning.
Don’t think you must go gently, Heidi. You may rage, if you like:
Actor Michael Sheen performs Dylan Thomas’s famous poem:
https://youtu.be/w-sM-t1KI_YEvery single one of us here will follow you into that good night...and I believe it *is* good.
My hope for you is that Death will be civil with you, as you very well deserve:
Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.
We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility –
We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess – in the Ring –
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –
We passed the Setting Sun –
Or rather – He passed us –
The Dews drew quivering and chill –
For only Gossamer, my Gown –
My Tippet – only Tulle –
We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground –
The Roof was scarcely visible –
The Cornice – in the Ground –
Since then – ‘tis Centuries – and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses’ Heads
Were toward Eternity –
—Emily Dickinson—
Goodnight, Heidi.
Human