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A DREAM OF DEATH by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

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First Line: I DREAMED THAT ONE HAD DIED IN A STRANGE PLACE
Last Line: AND HEARD THE MOURNFUL BREEZE.
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;
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,
And, wondering, planted by her solitude
A cypress and a yew:
I came, and wrote upon a cross of wood
Man had no more to do:
She was more beautiful than thy first love,
This lady by the trees:
And gazed upon the mournful stars above,
And heard the mournful breeze.


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