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If champagne was good enough for a final tipple for Chekhov, why not whisky
for an Englishman, Patrick.

Bill

On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 at 1:51 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Keep it a ‘he’, Patrick. & that will be fine.
>
> There are many ways to say goodbye, as you suggest...
>
> > On Mar 28, 2018, at 2:46 AM, Patrick McManus <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > NONE NO NONE
> >
> > as he
> > reached
> > the end of
> > his life
> > he comfortably
> > lying in bed
> > happily
> > with sweet music
> > and his family
> > all around
> > he thought
> > no!
> > none, no none
> > of that awful
> > ‘Do not go gentle
> > into that good night’
> > and
> > ‘Rage, rage against
> > dying of the light’
> > nonsense
> > for him
> > and he
> > slowly sipped
> > savoured
> > his last
> > good whisky
> > and bid
> > a fond
> > fare
> > well
> > .
> >
> >
> > pmcmanus
> > s285
> >
> > Do not go gentle into that good night "Rage, rage against the dying of
> the light".
> > Dylan Thomas' In Country Sleep, And Other Poems of 1952
> > as we all know
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
>
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> 2 (UofAPress).
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>
>
>
> the way of what fell
> the lies
> like the petals
> falling     drop
> delicately
>
>              Phyllis Webb
>