Like coral insects multitudinousThe minutes are whereof our life is made.They build it up as in the deep's blue shadeIt grows, it comes to light, and then, and thusFor both there is an end.
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Jean Ingelow was a 19th-century English poet and novelist. Jean Ingelow was an English poet and novelist, who gained sudden fame in 1863. She also wrote several stories for children. Read more on Wikipedia →