Think where man’s glory most begins and ends And say my glory was I had such friends.
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Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- The Municipal Gallery Revisited, section VII; Closing couplet, a complete concluding imperative after a semicolon. Text checked in the Josephine Hart Poetry Foundation’s reading edition; poem reflects on portraits of his friends.
- The Municipal Gallery Revisited, section VII
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