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No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.
No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.
Approximate author period: c. 1743 AD · early modern
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- Author or tradition
- Thomas Gray
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- Approximate author period: c. 1743 AD · early modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
The Epitaph.
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