“When the good man yields his breath
(For the good man never dies).”

— James Montgomery

The Wanderer of Switzerland, Part v. Compare: "Say not that the good die" (translated from original Greek), Callimachus, Epigram x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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British editor, hymn writer, and poet 1771–1854

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