"C. G. Estabrook" wrote:
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> > Still, like muffled drums, are beating
> Funeral marches to the grave...
>
> I'll spare you the rest. --CGE
You could have spared us this much. :-{
But the muffled drums echo some wonderful lines from Bishop King's Exequy:
But hark, my pulse, like a soft drum,
Beats my approach, tells thee I come,
Quoted from memory.
Carrol