On Sun, Feb 5, 2012, at 04:02 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
> The poem on his gravestone (also that of his daughter and of his wife)
> goes,
>
> “So be my passing
> My task accomplished and the long day done
> My wages taken, and in my heart
> Some late lark singing
> Let me be gathered in the quiet west
> The sundown splendid and serene, Death.”
Something like the haunting song "Into the West" at the end of Jackson's
last film in the Tolkien trilogy, sung by Annie Lenox.
Thanks for sharing, Chris.
Joel W.
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