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To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killigrew
Since heaven's eternal year is thine.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Dryden addresses the deceased Anne Killigrew and asks her to pause her celestial singing briefly to hear his mortal praise. The line imagines that eternity leaves time for both; the afterlife belongs to the ode’s elegiac vision, not an independently established fact.
Sources (1)
- Dryden, collected works (Scott edition, 1808)To the Memory of Mrs Anne Killigrew: opening addressReference checked
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