Ngoc Nguyen Poet Elegiac Lyric

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An homage to Dylan Thomas's classic poem, "Do not go gentle into that good night"...

An Homage To Dylan Thomas

Do not go gentle into that good night
     of darkness, blight, and disease;
     rage, rage against the hour of midnight—please,
with all of your might
     until I am at ease!

Do not go gentle into that good night
     of solemn, irrevocable sleep;
     rage, rage against the wooing of the permanent Deep!
Come to me and to the light—
     or else I shall bitterly weep!

Do not go gentle into that good night
     of the ebb of your power;
     rage, rage against the withering of your beautiful flower!
Deny eternal rest its right
     to come before that fateful hour!

Do not go gentle into that good night
     that takes you before the day's done; 
     rage, rage against the gradual dying of your sun!
Before the end's almost within sight,
     fight, fight, so life's still defiantly won!

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