"And all the people of the lulled and dumbfound town are sleeping now."

"Hush, the babies are sleeping, the farmers, the fishers, the tradesmen and pensioners, cobbler, school-teacher, postman and publican, the undertaker and the fancy woman, drunkard, dressmaker, preacher, policeman, the webfoot cocklewomen and the tidy wives................................................."

"Only your eyes are unclosed to see the black and folded town fast, and slow, asleep."

 

Extract from Under Milkwood by Dylan Thomas

Read by Richard Burton.