Death & Dying
Upon His Death-Bed Lay a Pagan Priest
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Death & Dying
Upon his death-bed lay a pagan priest;
A pious brother when the worst had ceast
Consoled him thus.
" Think now what pleasure yields
The nearer prospect of Elysian fields."
" Ah! " said he, " all about those fields we know
But mushrooms, are good mushrooms there below? "
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Upon His Death-Bed Lay a Pagan Priest.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/898/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Upon His Death-Bed Lay a Pagan Priest.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/898/.
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