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Should I not hear, as I lie down in dust, The horns of glory blowing above my burial?


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The hiss was now becoming a roar - the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow - but even now it said peace, it said remoteness, it said cold, it said sleep.

The hiss was now becoming a roar - the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow - but even now it said peace, it said remoteness, it said cold, it said sleep.



All lovely things will have an ending, all lovely things will fade and die; and youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

All lovely things will have an ending, all lovely things will fade and die; and youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.



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The wandering one, the inquisitive dreamer of dreams, the eternal asker of answers, stands in the street, and lifts his palms for the first cold ghost of rain.



[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.

[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.



Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!

Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!



My heart has become as hard as a city street, the horses trample upon it, it sings like iron, all day long and all night long they beat, they ring like the hooves of time.

My heart has become as hard as a city street, the horses trample upon it, it sings like iron, all day long and all night long they beat, they ring like the hooves of time.



I'm afraid I wasn't much of a student, but my casual reading was enormous.

I'm afraid I wasn't much of a student, but my casual reading was enormous.



O sweet clean earth, from whom the green blade cometh! When we are dead, my best beloved and I, close well above us, that we may rest forever, sending up grass and blossoms to the sky.

O sweet clean earth, from whom the green blade cometh! When we are dead, my best beloved and I, close well above us, that we may rest forever, sending up grass and blossoms to the sky.



Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.



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Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.





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This page presents the quote "Should I not hear, as I lie down in dust, The horns of glory blowing above my burial?". Author of this quote is Conrad Aiken. This quote is about death, dust, burial, should i, horns, lying, glory,.