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... the Woods beneath their sturdy Let not Ambition mock their useful Font , Their homel . Joys be Nor Grand bor hear , with disdainful Smile . The short & simple Annaly of the Poor . The Boast , of Heratory , the Wealth , eer gave And ...
... the Woods beneath their sturdy Let not Ambition mock their useful Font , Their homel . Joys be Nor Grand bor hear , with disdainful Smile . The short & simple Annaly of the Poor . The Boast , of Heratory , the Wealth , eer gave And ...
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... or crossed One Morn I mess'd him from the customd Hill , the death , & near his fav rite Free , Along Another came ; now yet beside the Rill , the Lawn , nor at the Wood was he . Nor imp The next with Darges due in sad drray ...
... or crossed One Morn I mess'd him from the customd Hill , the death , & near his fav rite Free , Along Another came ; now yet beside the Rill , the Lawn , nor at the Wood was he . Nor imp The next with Darges due in sad drray ...
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| Title | An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
| Author | Thomas Gray |
| Publisher | s.l., 1897 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 30 Oct 2008 |
| Length | 4 pages |
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