The Poem in the last episode

David Halpern

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Oct 29, 2001, 10:19:41 PM10/29/01

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Anyone remember that beautiful poem he uttered in the last episode.

had a stanza in it " see how it falls"

It was about the setting of the sun

Thanks in advance.

David

Cynara

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Oct 30, 2001, 7:32:38 AM10/30/01

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In article <h%oD7.1982$hZ.1...@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net>, David
Halpern says...

Hi David!

It's the A.E. Housman poem, The Remorseful Day. It's a gorgeous poem
and well suited to Morse. I have a cd with Morse's lament being sung on it
on it, and then Colin Dexter reciting The Remorseful Day with Barrington
Pheloung's fab music in the background
accenting the mood perfectly, as always!
CHEERS!

BTW, Where's everyone been hiding out here? The pub's been fairly empty the
past
few days--perhaps it's been going through renovations?

CY

fws

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Oct 30, 2001, 9:25:10 AM10/30/01

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"David Halpern" <*remove*photoni...@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<h%oD7.1982$hZ.1...@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net>...

The poem is "The Remorseful Day" by Houseman:

Ensanguining the skies
How heavily it dies
Into the west away;
Past touch and sight and sound
Not further to be found
How hopeless under ground
Falls the remorseful day

(A.E. Houseman,
More Poems, XVI)

David Halpern

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Oct 30, 2001, 11:59:01 PM10/30/01

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Well thank you muchly you two :) Take care and I love this poem but will
miss Morse.

David

cynara

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Oct 31, 2001, 7:33:36 AM10/31/01

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In article <pyLD7.4771$hZ.3...@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net>, David
Halpern says...

>
>Well thank you muchly you two :) Take care and I love this poem but will
>miss Morse.
>
>David
>
>

>Isn't there two more verses? If anyone has the whole poem, please post it?
It IS lovely. Colin also loves Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard. It's
quite touching, but The Remorseful Day is perfect for the last book/episode.

I think W. H. Auden's Stop All The CLocks is well suited. Perhaps better suited
to
Morse people than Morse himself. For Morse himself, TRD was perfect. A.E.
Houseman
has always been a fave of Morse as well as Dexter.

CY
>

Diane Weber

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Oct 31, 2001, 8:15:52 PM10/31/01

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cynara wrote:

> I think W. H. Auden's Stop All The CLocks is well suited.

Isn't that the one used in "Four Weddings and a Funeral?" I have been looking for
that one, but haven't been able to find it in any anthology. Guess that's what I
get for living in California. Cultural wasteland....

Diane

cynara

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Nov 1, 2001, 8:37:59 AM11/1/01

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In article <3BE0A39D...@earthlink.net>, Diane Weber says...
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>Diane

I have this poem. I will be happy to post it. Right noew am having a bit of
difficulty with
my computer so posting over the nexxt few days might be scarce. But you folks
keep the pub open while
I find out what's up with the brain.

CY

@van-der-woude-00.myweb.nl H. van der Woude

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Nov 5, 2001, 6:41:31 PM11/5/01

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O, how I love this poem and the melancholy it displays... It couldn't be more Morse-like.
Wish, I could quote some of my best loved Dutch poets, but no-one of you would understand it, so it would not make sense. Slauerhoff, a friend of my grandfather and his brothers, is the one I'm refering to and his melancholy is like Houseman's. Morse would have liked Slauerhoff's poems. But that doesn't help you, I'm afraid.

Herman van der Woude
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