I have Googled to the ends of the internet before starting this post - I honestly have tried! Or I have tried, honestly..
I am trying to find a poem, but I only have the jist of one line, and even that is flaky.
It's about the 'cocoon' dying people wrap themselves in, a kind of distancing of themselves from life, as an act of self preservation. It is presented as being a boon, a gift from the benign being that is 'Death'. I think..
I'm pretty sure the poem is on an entirely different topic though, and that line is only a 'throwaway' illustration of something else.
Something along the lines of 'as death provides a balm for' or 'as the dying set themselves apart..'
It might be in the iambic pentameter, and the likely suspects are Pope, Kipling, Burns, Tennyson, Donne, or maybe Yeats.
It isn't a Haiku, or anything modern or Japanese, which seems to be the net result of my Googling.
It is a very well known poem, I used to know it by heart, but now that I need it - it escapes me entirely - I feel like a total idiot. I can't find it anywhere!
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Trying to find a poem
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TheMoa · 20/07/2015 10:03
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