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Charles Rickett and Charles Shannon published the fifth and final volume of The Dial at the end of 1897. Housman's contribution, a fantasy entitled "Open the Door, Posy!," humourously portrays the means by which an impoverished mother and daughter outwit Death the Taxman, Death the Undertaker, and Death the Sexton, in a triumphant assertion of the right to live.


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Dec 1897

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