Death shall have no dominion (Dylan Thomas)

  And death shall have no dominion.

Dead man naked they shall be one

With the man in the wind and 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 see 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.

--Dylan Thomas        

In November we remember All Souls...                  

Image source:  Vasili Golinski, Golgotha (ca.1890-1900), http://thehealingprojectweblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/son-of-sun-song-for-good-friday.html

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