The title of our opening lines, taken from an old English pre-Reformation (judging by its theology) ditty, literally means “The Corpse-Wake Dirge,” and it was sung at the mournful occasion its title suggests. Its lyrics, with their graphic description of the postmortem challenges facing the soul, are well worth meditating upon at this time of year, when the “October Country” (in Ray Bradbury’s…
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