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First Line: Said death, the king, unto the jester, fate
Last Line: "now all are quiet in their graves!"" death said."
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


SAID Death, the king, unto the jester, Fate
"My subjects chafe, those who have come of late—
They say their narrow beds are hard and cold;
And they would wander, as they did of old!"

Said Fate, the jester, unto Death, the king:
"Let them go free, let them go wandering;
Let them go back and visit once again
The scenes they loved there in the world of men.

"Yes, give them freedom—let them have their hour
And give to each returning ghost the power
To stay among his loved ones as of old,
Provided he shall find them—unconsoled!"

So spake the jester, Fate, to Death, the king,
And all the troubled ghosts went wandering.—
Next day Fate asked: "How fare the restless dead?"
"Now all are quiet in their graves!" Death said.





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