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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| NUMBER: | 4234 |
| AUTHOR: | William Collins (1721–1759) |
| QUOTATION: | By fairy hands their knell is rung; 1 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! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Ode written in the year 1746. |
| Note 1. Var. By hands unseen the knell is rung; By fairy forms their dirge is sung. [back] |
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