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“

That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, / Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— / Are but the solemn decorations all / Of the great tomb of man.

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— William Cullen Bryant, "Thanatopsis" (1817)

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William Cullen Bryant, Thanatopsis (1817-1821), line 43.