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A DREAM OF DEATH (VARIANT VERSION) by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

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First Line: I DREAMED THAT ONE HAD DIED IN A STRANGE PLACE
Last Line: BUT NOW LIES UNDER BOARDS.
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,
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:
@3She was more beautiful than thy first love,
But now lies under boards.@1


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