Ralph Brereton

Sadly Ralph passed away on Monday 26th October 2009

He will be greatly missed by all his friends at N.C.S.  

"Music binds us together with invisible threads"

When the bright lamp is carried in,
the sunless hours again begin;
O'er all without, in field and lane,
the haunted night returns again.

Now we behold the embers flee
about the firelit hearth; and see
our faces painted as we pass,
like pictures, on the window-glass.

Must we to bed indeed? Well then,
let us arise and go like men,
and face with an undaunted tread
the long black passage up to bed.

Farewell, O brother, sister, sire!
O pleasant party round the fire!
The songs you sing, the tales you tell,
till far tomorrow, fare ye well!
                         Robert Louis Stevenson