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HE POINTS OUT THE BREVITY OF LIFE by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS

Poem Explanation

First Line: MY YESTERDAY WAS DREAM, TOMORROW EARTH
Last Line: DIGS OUT A MONUMENT FROM MY BRIEF DAY
Subject(s): MORTALITY; TIME; TRANSIENCE;

Poem Sources:

WORLD POETRY; AN ANTHOLOGY OF VERSE FROM ANTIQUITY TO OUR TIME. KATHARINE WASHBURN & JOHN S. MAJORS, EDITORS. CLIFTON FADIMAN, GENERAL EDITOR.
  WASHBURN, KATHARINE (ED.)
  (1998)
 



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