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It is not clear to me what it means. Can you supply some more context?

It's from a song "The Burial" by seeming. The lyrics are as follows:

To the lighthouse that faithfully whispers the fisherman starboard,
To the children whose days number more than every flower in Europe,
To the nations who charter their florid colonial highways,
To the towers erected by contractors named after kings:
*** will bury you; nature will bury you

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The only thing I can figure is that the line suggests that the children have long lives ahead of them, more days in their lives than there are flowers in Europe. I don't think it's saying that the children are bad, rather it is saying that all the things listed will die or come to an end.

Hmm, so you think they can be ahead of them? To me it feels like "number" only counts what's already there or already happened, but I'm no native speaker so... My notion of "bad" comes from the reviewer listing these children along with "the gunmen guarding against the starving" which is clearly negative, opposing it to the lighthouse and the towers. Although I'm not sure the latter are dee