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To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die.
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“To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die.”

Thomas Campbell

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Hallowed Ground
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1825
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Campbell suggests that a person’s influence can continue through the memories and moral lives of others even after biological death.

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“Hallowed Ground,” represented in The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell, Project Gutenberg #59788. The stanza reflects on memory, public service, death and what makes ground or remembrance sacred.

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