“The knight's bones are dust,
And his good sword rust;
His soul is with the saints, I trust.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
"The Knight's Tomb" (c. 1817)
“The rust will find the sword of fame,
The dust will hide the crown;
Ay, none shall nail so high his name
Time will not tear it down.”
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