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Mad Maudlin	Help: 'The Unquiet Grave' (6)	'The Unquiet Grave'	27 Oct 01
I've just played "The Unquiet Grave", and one of the verses suddenly struck me as odd. (Never had thought about it before...)It's the following one: o give me water from the desert And blood from out of a stone And give me milk from a maiden's breast That a young man never has known. In the version I know this verse comes after the one where the ghost tells her, "and if you kiss my clay-cold lips, your tíme it will not be long". What I'm wondering about is, will he come back to life (as a revenant, most likely, like the sons of the Wife of Usher's Well) when she gives him all those things, or is this just the ghost's way of saying, "Forget it"? Looking forward to your comments and ideas! "Mad"

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