Time has transfigured them into / Untruth. . . .

"Time has transfigured them into
Untruth. The stone fidelity
They hardly meant has come to be
Their final blazon, and to prove
Our almost-instinct almost true:
What will survive of us is love."

. . . Philip Larkin . . . "An Arundel Tomb" . . . Collected Poems . . .