Janet Margaret Steggle

STEGGLE, Janet Margaret (née Perkins): Aged 75 years. Janet died on Monday, September 23, 2024, at Wairau Hospital with her loving husband Pete, and her friend Sarah Dudley, at her bedside. Special thanks to the members of Vines Knitting Group, and Jan and Stu, all of whom were friends over and above what could be expected. Thank you is inadequate, but it’s all I have.

W. H. Auden summed it up:

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message ‘She is Dead’.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

She was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

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