The Dead Only Quickly - The Divine Comedy

Priests and fools say

We are but animate clay

Rude vessels

Housing immortal souls

But the dead only quickly decay

They don’t go about being born and reborn

And rising and falling like soufflé

The dead only quickly decay

It would be swell

To see some folk burn in hell

But when they go

It’s just pleasant to know

That the dead only quickly decay