The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre… — John Clare · Skopia

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The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.

1845

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Clare, John. "The Present is the Funeral of the Past." The Later Poems of John Clare. Oxford University Press, 1984, I. 1.

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Clare, John. The Present is the Funeral of the Past. c. 1845, I. 1.

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