“I see them walking in an air of glory
Whose light doth trample on my days,
My days, which are at best but dull and hoary,
Mere glimmering and decays.”

—  Henry Vaughan

"They Are All Gone," st. 3.
Silex Scintillans (1655)

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Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet 1621–1695

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