The featured image is “The premature burial” by Antoine Wiertz (1806-1865) painted in 1854. This poem, written approximately in elegiac couplet, was inspired by a memory inspired by the first stanza of lyrics in Hozier’s “Take Me To Church.”
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a funeral
Exhibition 1874 
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What a thought-provoking poem. Intriguing imagery. 🙂
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