"E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires."
— Fire

January 1, 1970

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Thomas Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard, 23. Gray says it was suggested by Petrarch, Sonnet, 169. Same phrase in Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act V, scene 2.