<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Song<div><br></div><div><font color="#141823">The chimney sweepers<br>Wash their faces and forget to wash the neck;<br>The lighthouse keepers<br>Let the lamps go out and leave the ships to wreck;<br>The prosperous baker<br>Leaves the rolls in hundreds in the oven to burn;<br>The undertaker<br>Pins a small note on the coffin saying, "Wait till I return,<br>I've got a date with Love."</font><br><font color="#141823">And deep-sea divers<br>Cut their boots off and come bubbling to the top,<br>And engine-drivers<br>Bring expresses in the tunnel to a stop;<br>The village rector<br>Dashes down the side-aisle half-way through a psalm;<br>The sanitary inspector<br>Runs off with the cover of the cesspool on his arm --<br>To keep his date with Love.</font></div><div><font color="#141823"><br></font></div><div><font color="#141823"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); ">W.H. Auden</span></div></body></html>