"Mortality, behold and fear! What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones."
— Westminster Abbey

January 1, 1970

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Francis Beaumont, "On the Tombs in Westminster", Poems (1660); a longer version is printed in A Helpe to Discourse, 14th ed. (1654)