How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mold,…
William Collins, born December 25, 1721, was an English poet. He is the author of Ode Occasion’d by the Death of Mr. Thomson (1749), Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegorical Subjects (1746), and Persian Eclogues (1742). He died in Sussex, England, on June 12, 1759.