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1865–1939

A DREAM OF DEATH

William Butler Yeats

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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