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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460988" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>John Betjeman, Poet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Six distinguished men, soaked to the skin, <br>others with the ladies following, <br>a coffin, underslung, <br>a walk of half a mile along a rough churchgoing path, <br>the coffin swinging like a cradle, <br>in driving Cornish rain; <br>an almost merry funeral, <br>green and flowered with thought, <br>full of the memory of laughter</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There’s a photo – he's<br>about two or three years old –<br>this is a child born<br>with fear on his face<br>at having been born<br>to death; (the cradle<br>swinging like a coffin) : <br>instead of looking at the <br>birdie in the camera, it’s the void he sees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">how to fill the intervening years? <br>walking just as Pooh Bear walks, <br>(his beloved, patched teddy bear<br>which accompanied him for life<br>had taught him how to walk) <br>solemn, careful, tubby, smallish steps, <br>hopping across a road<br>as if civilisation had taken him by surprise; <br>squashed pork pie hat concealing<br>lugubrious face, immobile, melancholy<br>when not exploding into laughter; <br>laughter, beauty, won the day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">how to fill the intervening years? <br>with the gaiety of company, love of women, <br>declarations of love and offers of marriage, <br>love affairs for all of ten minutes, sometimes lifelong; <br>with beauty, observation, comedy; the gift<br>of finding life one long party is perhaps of those<br>who've not forgotten death; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">a sad face walking so alone, <br>leaving behind him in the lightest verse, <br>which won a nation's laurelled love, writing of<br>the absurdities of class, the built beauty of<br>a nation’s heritage, washed by sea and custom, <br>wind and Cornish rocks and shore; <br>an unspoken magnificence; hints of eternity; <br>joy; delight, and eloquence; and laughter.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Six distinguished men, soaked to the skin, <br>others with the ladies following, <br>a coffin, underslung, <br>a walk of half a mile along a rough churchending path, <br>the coffin swinging like a cradle, <br>in driving Cornish rain; <br>an almost merry funeral, <br>green and flowered with thought, <br>full of the memory of laughter.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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others with the ladies following, 
a coffin, underslung, 
a walk of half a mile along a rough churchgoing path, 
the coffin swinging like a cradle, 
in driving Cornish rain; 
an almost merry funeral, 
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