“T is sweet, as year by year we lose
Friends out of sight, in faith to muse
How grows in Paradise our store.”

—  John Keble

Burial of the Dead reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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English churchman and poet, a leader of the Oxford Movement 1792–1866

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