“Randolph, thy wreath has lost a rose.”
Walter Scott The Lord of the Isles
Canto VI, stanza 18.
The Lord of the Isles (1815)
“A rose to the living is more
Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead.”
A Rose to the Living, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead." by Nixon Waterman?
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