outlive

outlive
verb /aʊtˈlɪv/
a) To live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive.

And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth / Eternal numbers to outlive long date.

b) To live through or past (a given time).

If anything / it makes it worse, your early death, that / having now at last outlived you, I too / have broken ranks.


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