{"id":48,"date":"2012-06-26T07:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T07:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/2012\/06\/rage-rage-against-the-dying-of-the-light\/"},"modified":"2012-06-26T07:34:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T07:34:00","slug":"rage-rage-against-the-dying-of-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/2012\/06\/rage-rage-against-the-dying-of-the-light.html","title":{"rendered":"Rage, Rage, Against the Dying of the Light"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
Do not go gentle into that good night<\/span><\/span>
By Dylan Thomas<\/span><\/span>

Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.<\/span><\/span>
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.<\/span>
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.<\/span>
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.<\/span>
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.<\/span>\n
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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