William Collins (1721–1759) English poet, born 1721
Ode written in the year 1746. A variation of the first two lines is "By hands unseen the knell is rung; / By fairy forms their dirge is sung".
“Shall I, like an hermit, dwell
On a rock or in a cell?”
Poem reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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