18 December 2002 - sands of time

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Views of catafalques remind us
We can make our deaths sublime
And forever be enshrined a
Frog prince in the sands of time.

clue:

A parody of famous (or infamous) lines from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “A Psalm of Life” about leaving footprints in the sands of time.

give me a clue so sweet and true

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