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In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker jokes about funeral customs in parts of Ireland: death is a sleep with no waking, yet it is followed by a wake in which nobody sleeps. The wordplay contrasts final rest with lively all-night gathering, treating mourning as noisy, wakeful and oddly full of life.
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