Quote #72

He will watch from dawn to gloom The lake-reflected sun illume The yellow bees in the ivy-bloom, Nor heed nor see, what things they be; But from these create he can Forms more real than living man, Nurslings of immortality!

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  8. Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

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