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Ah! when the ghost begins to quicken,
Confusion of the death-bed over, is it sent
Out naked on the roads, as the books say, and stricken
By the injustice of the skies for punishment? - William Butler Yeats
Attribution: William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet. The Cold Heaven (l. 9–12). . . The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Richard J. Finneran, ed. (1989) Macmillan.

Categories: Afterlife, Death, Punishment

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