Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Old age should burn and rave at close of day, and a son instructs a dying father accordingly, working through wise men who know dark is right, good men crying how bright their frail deeds might have danced, wild men who caught and sang the sun, and grave men seeing with blinding sight. Two lines come back in turn as the refrains of a villanelle. Written while Thomas's father was going blind and failing.
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