I Would Rather Sleep

[greenrook]

I used to know a poem, in which an old countryman, a shepherd possibly, muses on the hereafter, and decides that if he doesn't wake, after death, to his sheep and his dogs and the life he's always led, he would rather just sleep the sleep of Death. That's the last line of the poem, 'I wud (sic) rather sleep' Anyone familiar with it? Cheers...-G-

[Dizmo]

I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.

I shall use my time.

[scorpiojo]

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