No but thanks for being a nice person
A. In the stanza it said "Time is fleeting" and also said "Funeral marches to the grave".
Answer:
a. he says he has known Steve and his family for years.
Gertrude Stein, patron of the arts, was a voluble conversationalist when artists and writers visited her Paris apartment in the 1920s and 1930s.
Form google dict., voluble means <em></em><span><em>Speaking or spoken incessantly and fluently.</em></span>