“I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wakeup letter.”

From the 1987 song "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me"
From songs

Revelations of Divine Love (c. 1393), Chapter 3
Context: When I was thirty years old and a half, God sent me a bodily sickness, in which I lay three days and three nights; and on the fourth night I took all my rites of Holy Church, and weened not to have lived till day. And after this I languored forth two days and two nights, and on the third night I weened oftentimes to have passed; and so weened they that were with me.
And being in youth as yet, I thought it great sorrow to die; — but for nothing that was in earth that meliked to live for, nor for no pain that I had fear of: for I trusted in God of His mercy. But it was to have lived that I might have loved God better, and longer time, that I might have the more knowing and loving of God in bliss of Heaven. For methought all the time that I had lived here so little and so short in regard of that endless bliss, — I thought nothing.

The Dead-Beat
Context: p>We sent him down at last, out of the way.
Unwounded; — stout lad, too, before that strafe.
Malingering? Stretcher-bearers winked, 'Not half!' Next day I heard the Doc.'s well-whiskied laugh:
'That scum you sent last night soon died. Hooray!' </p

"Thank You, Lord"
And Still I Rise (1978)

Huckabee Says What His Opponents Won’t
Niall
Stanage
2007-12-18
http://www.observer.com/2007/huckabee-says-what-his-opponents-won-t
New York Observer
2007-12-15

Variant: I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.

Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (1 July 1925); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker

The Rubaiyat (1120)