"Life's race well run, Life's work well done, Life's victory won, Now cometh rest."
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Funeral Ode on James A. Garfield, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Edward Hazen Parker
Edward Hazen Parker M.D. (1823 – November 9, 1896) was an American physician and poet.
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