Sunday, July 06, 2014

Hydriotaphia

It was in a field near Great Walsingham that a discovery was made of fifty urns "deposited in a dry and sandy soil, not a yard deep, nor far from one another".

This inspired Sir Thomas Browne to write his great poem Hydriotaphia:

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/hydrionoframes/hydrio1.html

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