Thursday, March 16, 2017
The Afterlife
Robert Browning (1812-1889), "The Bishop Orders his Tomb at St. Praxed's," lines 80-84:
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And then how I shall lie through centuries,
And hear the blessed mutter of the mass,
And see God made and eaten all day long,
And feel the steady candle-flame, and taste
Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!