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TAPERS by ROBERT HERRICK

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First Line: THOSE TAPERS, WHICH WE SET UPON THE GRAVE
Last Line: SO LIVE IN HEAVEN, IN EVERLASTING LIGHT.
Those Tapers, which we set upon the grave,
In fun'rall pomp, but this importance have;
That soules departed are not put out quite;
But, as they walk't here in their vestures white,
So live in Heaven, in everlasting light.



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