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Tapers

by Robert Herrick, 1647

Those tapers which we set upon the grave
In fun’ral pomp, but this importance have:
That souls departed are not put out quite;
But as they walked here in their vestures white,
So live in heaven in everlasting light.

Published in Noble Numbers
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