"The helm may rust, the laurel bough may fade, Oblivion's grasp may blunt the victor's blade: But that bright holy wreath which learning gives, Untorn by hate, unharm'd by envy lives."
— James Grahame

January 1, 1970

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Poets from Scotland
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John Graham, "Ode to the Duke of Wellington" (June 1834) collected in A Vision of Fair Spirits, &c. (1834) p. 122. Misattributed to Grahame in Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1875) p. 296 (under 'Learning')