Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song:
I thought the love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Puck up the moon and dismantle the sun:
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood,
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

W.H.Auden