I. The Burial of the Dead
- (v.30) I will show you fear in a handful of dust
II. A Game of Chess
- (vv.115-116) I think we are in rats' alley / Where the dead lost their bones
- (v.126) "Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?"
- (vv.137-138) And we shall play a game of chess, / Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door
III. The Fire Sermon
- (vv.185-186) But at my back in a cold blast I hear / The rattle of the bones, and chuckle spread from ear to ear
IV. Death by Water
- (vv.315-318) A current under sea / Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell / He passed the stages of his age and youth / Entering the whirpool
V. What the Thunder Said
- (vv.364-365) I do not know whether a man or a woman / --But who is that on the other side of you?
- (vv.430) These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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