Unknown. Lyke-wake Dirge

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    This ae nighte, this ae nighte,
    MEvery nighte and alle,
    Fire and fleet and candle-lighte,
    And Christe receive thy saule.
    —Unknown. Lyke-Wake Dirge, The (l. 33–36)

    I should need
    Colours and words that are unknown to man,
    To paint the visionary dreariness
    William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    This ae nighte, this ae nighte,
    MEvery nighte and alle,
    Fire and fleet and candle-lighte,
    And Christe receive thy saule.
    —Unknown. Lyke-Wake Dirge, The (l. 33–36)

    Living, just by itself—what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom’s the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you’ve got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that’s terribly exciting—or he’ll come along and nibble your brain.
    Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)