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.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'Stop all the clocks', Collected Poems. Featured in the1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^7  Sam Weller. Pickwick Papers, ch.25.

Booth led boldly with his big brass drumö (Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?) The saints smiled gravelyand they said 'He's come.'

-Lindsay, (Nicholas) Vachel
  General Booth Enters Into Heaven,'General Booth Enters Into Heaven'.

Let us pick up again these lost strands and weave them again into the fabric of America†sort out the music from the sounds and again respond to the trumpet and the steady drum.

-McCarthy, EugeneJ(oseph)
  Speech to Conference of Concerned Democrats, 2 Dec.