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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 375
AUTHOR: Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909)
QUOTATION: On the mountains of memory, by the world’s wellsprings,
In all men’s eyes,
Where the light of the life of him is on all past things,
Death only dies.
ATTRIBUTION: ALGERNON C. SWINBURNE, “Super Flumina Babylonis,” The Complete Works of Algernon C. Swinburne, vol. 2, p. 106 (1925).
SUBJECTS: Death