To bring the dead to life Is no great magic. Feware wholly dead: Blow on a dead man's embers And a live flame will start.

-Graves, Robert von Ranke
  'To Bring the Dead to Life'.

Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth. Save the cricket on the hearth.

-Milton,John
c.1631 Il Penseroso, l.79^82.

O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!

-Wordsworth,William
c.1802^1803  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood', stanza 9 (published1807).