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After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts - like a Chinese nest of boxes - oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front - in our ancestors, back and back until.

Walter de La Mare

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Walter de La Mare
Age: 83 †
Born: 1873
Born: April 25
Died: 1956
Died: June 22
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Writer
Charlton
London
Walter Ramal
Walter John de la Mare
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Nest
Every
Fronts
Oaks
Men
Front
Nests
Like
Lies
Ghosts
Behinds
Ancestors
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Lying
Boxes
Horde
Death
Ghost
Acorns

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