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Bn77 Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
A life that I have
A Life that I Have (by Leo Marks)
The life that I have
Is all that I have
And the life that I have
Is yours
The love that I have
Of the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours.
A sleep I shall have
A rest I shall have
Yet death will be but a pause
For the peace of my years
In the long green grass
Will be yours and yours and yours.
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Could anyone rephrase the sentence " yet death will be but a pause"? what is the exact meaning of 'yet' and 'but' in this sentence??
The life that I have
Is all that I have
And the life that I have
Is yours
The love that I have
Of the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours.
A sleep I shall have
A rest I shall have
Yet death will be but a pause
For the peace of my years
In the long green grass
Will be yours and yours and yours.
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Could anyone rephrase the sentence " yet death will be but a pause"? what is the exact meaning of 'yet' and 'but' in this sentence??
Top answer
But death will be only/merely a pause.
- But death will be only/merely a pause.
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thank you! I have one more question.
in the sentence " of the life that I have" in the 2nd paragraph, what's the contextual meaning of the preposition "of" ?
in the sentence " of the life that I have" in the 2nd paragraph, what's the contextual meaning of the preposition "of" ?
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"of" has the same purpose here as in "my love of music", for example. It joins "The love which I have" to a description of the kind of love meant, which is the author's love of his life.
In a prose sentence it would be written "The love that I have of the life that I have is yours and yours and yours".
In a prose sentence it would be written "The love that I have of the life that I have is yours and yours and yours".
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