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Burial

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If on some woebegone night     A generous Christian soul     Behind an old garbage-dump, might     Drop your proud corpse in a hole,     When the chaste stars are nodding their heads     And closing their eyes to the earth,     There the spider will weave her web,     While the viper is giving birth;     You will listen the whole long year     Above your cursed bones     To wolvish howls, and then     To starving witches' moans,     Frolics of dirty old men,     Plottings of black racketeers.

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"If on some woebegone night..."

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