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“By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!”
Provenance
- Source:
- Ode written in the year 1746.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 287a140a889b64b1ad39ff99dcac21ef21a0c450437f6d8fa3870cc18c52acff
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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