{"id":681,"date":"2016-04-15T16:20:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T15:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/?p=681"},"modified":"2016-04-15T18:24:54","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T17:24:54","slug":"because-i-could-not-stop-for-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/?p=681","title":{"rendered":"Because I could not stop for Death…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I guess you know the feeling… what songs to pick for your own funeral and so on while browsing your 50+ GB playlist \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

\u00a0My favourites right now would be “Mr. Blue Sky” by ELO, “Tr\u00e4um vom Meer” by the “Wise Guys”, “Drowned on Dry Land” by Del Amitri, “Morning Aire” by Tommy Emmanuel, “Death and and all his friends” by Coldplay , “The Final Trawl” (both versions by North Sea Gas and Emily Smith) and many many more…. \u00a0probably too many to fit into a service \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

One of my all time favourite poems for the occasion is copied below thanks to poets.org by Emily Dickinson. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

Because I could not stop for Death<\/h1>\n

by\u00a0Emily Dickinson<\/span>, 1830<\/span> – 1886<\/span><\/h1>\n
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Because I could not stop for Death\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\r\nHe kindly stopped for me\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 \r\nThe Carriage held but just Ourselves\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 \r\nAnd Immortality.\r\n\r\nWe slowly drove\u00a0\u2013\u00a0He knew no haste\r\nAnd I had put away\r\nMy labor and my leisure too,\r\nFor His Civility\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\r\n\r\nWe passed the School, where Children strove\r\nAt Recess\u00a0\u2013\u00a0in the Ring\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 \r\nWe passed the Fields of Gazing Grain\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 \r\nWe passed the Setting Sun\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\r\n\r\nOr rather\u00a0\u2013\u00a0He passed us\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\r\nThe Dews drew quivering and chill\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\r\nFor only Gossamer, my Gown\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\r\nMy Tippet\u00a0\u2013\u00a0only Tulle\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\r\n\r\nWe paused before a House that seemed\r\nA Swelling of the Ground\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\r\nThe Roof was scarcely visible\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\r\nThe Cornice\u00a0\u2013\u00a0in the Ground\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\r\n\r\nSince then\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u2018tis Centuries\u00a0\u2013\u00a0and yet\r\nFeels shorter than the Day\r\nI first surmised the Horses\u2019 Heads \r\nWere toward Eternity\u00a0\u2013<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I guess you know the feeling… what songs to pick for your own funeral and so on while browsing your 50+ GB playlist \ud83d\ude09 \u00a0My favourites right now would be “Mr. Blue Sky” by ELO, “Tr\u00e4um vom Meer” by the “Wise Guys”, “Drowned on Dry Land” by Del Amitri, “Morning Aire” by Tommy Emmanuel, “Death […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}