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the Cure's new song Alone
was deeply influenced by the poem "Dregs" by Ernest Dowson
Dregs
The fire is out, and spent the warmth thereof,
(This is the end of every song man sings!)
The golden wine is drunk, the dregs remain,
Bitter as wormwood and as salt as pain;
And health and hope have gone the way of love
Into the drear oblivion of lost things.
Ghosts go along with us until the end;
This was a mistress, this, perhaps, a friend.
With pale, indifferent eyes, we sit and wait
For the dropped curtain and the closing gate:
This is the end of all the songs man sings.Ernest Dowson lived a fascinating life and died young and broke after all those around him also died.
But the interesting thing about him as the we get the phrases "gone with the wind"
"Days of wine and roses"
"I have been faithful...in my fashion"from his poems.
AAANNDD
if that weren't enough, he was the first to use the term "soccer" in print.
so blame him :)