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Father Death Blues (Dont Grow Old Part V)

 Hey Father Death, I'm flying home
Hey poor man, you're all alone
Hey old daddy, I know where I'm going

Father Death, Don't cry any more
Mama's there, underneath the floor
Brother Death, please mind the store

Old Aunty Death Don't hide your bones
Old Uncle Death I hear your groans
O Sister Death how sweet your moans

O Children Deaths go breathe your breaths
Sobbing breasts'll ease your Deaths
Pain is gone, tears take the rest

Genius Death your art is done
Lover Death your body's gone
Father Death I'm coming home

Guru Death your words are true
Teacher Death I do thank you
For inspiring me to sing this Blues

Buddha Death, I wake with you
Dharma Death, your mind is new
Sangha Death, we'll work it through

Suffering is what was born
Ignorance made me forlorn
Tearful truths I cannot scorn

Father Breath once more farewell
Birth you gave was no thing ill
My heart is still, as time will tell.


July 8, 1976 (Over Lake Michigan)

Written by Katherine Philips |

To Mrs. M. A. at Parting

 I Have examin'd and do find,
Of all that favour me
There's none I grieve to leave behind
But only only thee.

To part with thee I needs must die,
Could parting sep'rate thee and I.


But neither Chance nor Complement
Did element our Love ;
'Twas sacred Sympathy was lent
Us from the Quire above.

That Friendship Fortune did create,
Still fears a wound from Time or Fate.


Our chang'd and mingled Souls are grown
To such acquaintance now,
That if each would resume their own,
Alas ! we know not how.

We have each other so engrost,
That each is in the Union lost.


And thus we can no Absence know,
Nor shall we be confin'd ;
Our active Souls will daily go
To learn each others mind.

Nay, should we never meet to Sense,
Our Souls would hold Intelligence.


Inspired with a Flame Divine
I scorn to court a stay ;
For from that noble Soul of thine 
I ne're can be away.

But I shall weep when thou dost grieve ;
Nor can I die whil'st thou dost live.


By my own temper I shall guess
At thy felicity,
And only like my happiness
Because it pleaseth thee.

Our hearts at any time will tell
If thou, or I, be sick, or well.


All Honour sure I must pretend,
All that is Good or Great ;
She that would be Rosania's Friend,
Must be at least compleat.

If I have any bravery,
'Tis cause I have so much of thee.


Thy Leiger Soul in me shall lie,
And all thy thoughts reveal ;
Then back again with mine shall flie,
And thence to me shall steal.

Thus still to one another tend ;
Such is the sacred name of Friend.


Thus our twin-Souls in one shall grow,
And teach the World new Love,
Redeem the Age and Sex, and shew
A Flame Fate dares not move :
And courting Death to be our friend,
Our Lives together too shall end.


A Dew shall dwell upon our Tomb
Of such a quality,
That fighting Armies, thither come,
Shall reconciled be.

We'll ask no Epitaph, but say
ORINDA and ROSANIA.