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“A Dream of Death” by W. B. Yeats 🇮🇪 (13 Jun 186528 Jan 1939)
I dreamed that one had died in a strange place
Near no accustomed hand;
And they had nailed the boards above her face
The peasants of that land
Wondering to lay her in that solitude
And raised above her mound
A cross they had made out of two bits of wood
And planted cypress round;
And left her to the indifferent stars above
Until I carved these words:
She was more beautiful than thy first love
But now lies under boards.