Ode Written in the Year 1746
WIlliam Collins
1721 to 1759
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How sleep the brave, who sink to rest
By their country's wishes bless'd!
When Spring, with dewy fingers cold,
Returns to deck their hallow'd mould,
She there shall a sweeter sod
Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
fairy hands their knell is rung;
By forms unseen dirge is sung;
There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray,
bless the turf that wraps their clay;
And Freedom a while repair,
To dwell a weeping hermit there.