“Forever; ’t is a single word!
Our rude forefathers deemed it two:
Can you imagine so absurd
A view?”
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884) British poet
Forever; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Each in his narrow cell forever laid,
The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.”
St. 4 <br class="br"> Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
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