This is very much a work in progress: a single verse and a tune that may well change over time. The verse will almost certainly not be expanded, but it will probably constitute just one section of a larger piece with quite a lot of instrumental music, though the verse may be left a capella.
For a rather different approach to a similar visualisation, see Philip Larkin’s An Arundel Tomb.
I’m not sure if it’s coincidental that while I was posting this LinkedIn suggested that I might be interested in a post as Obituaries Editor for a medical journal…
Effigies
Once more they lie together
Not an atom’s width apart
Where none disturb their slumber
For there is no beating heart
Backup:
Wheal Alice Music 