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LinesIt is better to live than to lie a corpse,The live man catches the cow;I saw flames rise for the rich man’s pyre,And before his door he lay dead.

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It is better to live than to lie a corpse, The live man catches the cow; I saw flames rise for the rich man’s pyre, And before his door he lay dead.

Hávamál, Henry Adams Bellows, stanza 70. Public domain in the United States.