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  1. Remember, man, that thou art dust.

    The earl kneels, the ash of the end is written on his brow.

    A captain of ships kneels, to be put in mind of a death in a far port, or at home, or on a rock of the sea.

    And the boy that holds cinders for the priest,
    His forehead is smeared,
    Who wears a coat of fourteen Aprils…

    —George Mackay Brown, “Ash Wednesday”
    Published in TRAVELLERS (John Murray, 2013)

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