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After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts - like a Chinese nest of boxes - oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front - in our ancestors, back and back until.

After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts - like a Chinese nest of boxes - oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front - in our ancestors, back and back until.

Walter de La Mare
Lying, Men, Chinese
Walter de La Mare (2013). “The Return”, p.85, Courier Corporation

When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes.

Walter de La Mare
Lying, Eye, Darkness
1918 'Fare Well'.

We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie.

Walter de La Mare
Lying, Sleep, Days Gone By
Walter De La Mare (2007). “The Listeners and Other Poems”, p.34, Wildside Press LLC

The sandy cat by the Farmer's chair Mews at his knee for dainty fare; Old Rover in his moss-greened house Mumbles a bone, and barks at a mouse. In the dewy fields the cattle lie Chewing the cud 'neath a fading sky; Dobbin at manger pulls his hay: Gone is another summer's day.

Walter de La Mare
Summer, Lying, Cat
Walter De la Mare (1920). “Collected Poems, 1901-1918”

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