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Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love! Rest here, distressed by poverty no more; Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before; Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine!
Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love! Rest here, distressed by poverty no more; Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before; Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine!
Approximate author period: c. 1746 AD · early modern
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- Approximate author period: c. 1746 AD · early modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Epitaph on Claudius Philips, the Musician.
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