blessed are the dead that the rain rains on
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1607 Puritan I. i. If, Blessed bee the coarse [corpse] the raine raynes vpon, he had it, powring downe.
1787 F. GROSE Provincial Glossary (Superstitions) 61 It is..esteemed a good sign if it rains whilst a corpse is burying:..Happy is the corpse that the rain rains on.
1925 F. S. FITZGERALD Great Gatsby 210 I could only remember, without resentment, that Daisy hadn’t sent a message or a flower. Dimly I heard someone murmur, ‘Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.’
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