Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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MATTHEW ARNOLD.  1822-1888.

Others abide our question. Thou art free.

We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still,

Out-topping knowledge.

Shakespeare.

Strew on her roses, roses,

And never a spray of yew!

In quiet she reposes;

Ah, would that I did too!