Original artwork, not a still
When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker says that when good people die, their goodness survives them, while the bad leave nothing lasting: whatever belonged to them is buried too. Moral worth is presented as outliving the body, and wickedness as vanishing without a trace.
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