| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Where some in Browne's day might have taken widespread cremation as a sign that pre-Christian peoples had no belief in life after death, he finds evidence to the contrary: the funeral pyres were built, to quote Sebald's summation, of sweet fuel, cypress, fir, yew, and other trees perpetually verdant as silent expressions of their surviving hopes.
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