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The present is the funeral of the past,
And man the living sepulchre of life.
Source: In Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, by Oxford University Press, 1979, 1985.
-- John Clare, (Jul 13 1793-1864), English poet; He was the peasant poet and nature writer of the Romantic school; wrote Rural Muse, 1835.