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There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay.
There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay.
Approximate author period: c. 1738 AD · early modern
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- William Collins
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- Approximate author period: c. 1738 AD · early modern
author lifetime midpoint (1720–1756)
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- Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations (1901) (1901 AD)
Quote928 · printed citation: WILLIAM COLLINS: Ode in 1746.
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