On

some

fond Breast the
Some pious Drops the the closing closing Eve requires:
Even from
And buried whes glow, with social Fires

parting soul relies,
of Nature cries,

the Tomb, he

For Thee, who mindful ac: as

above.

some pensive Spirit

have

Delay

If chance that cer
By sympathetic
With vain, the kired, Enquiry skall Explore

toy

sympathetie Musings

onca

Haply, some oft have

loved Haunt, this lo

we

long.

deserted

hoary-headed Swain shall

sken

With hasty Footsteps

On

the high Brow

Jeen

more,

Shade.

sa

on the Prep of Dawn

him at

him

at

Soush the Dews away of yonder hanging. Lawn

Mim have we seech

While der the

oft as

of youder

for Green - side along

the

we

the Woodlark piped

Labours done,

her favervell Song

Peyonder

spreading Beach

With whiszfril Eyes, pursue
Oft at the foot of heary

The wreathes its ots fantastic Roots

For so high

7

Noontide wouff he stretch,

And pove upon

pore upon the Bright that

by

his

fanci he

Mutt ving.
Now wife'l wan, he droopd,

praw them from their dread Abode in trembling Tope The Bosom of his Father se & his God. (His Frailties there torek

for Lom
in hopeless Love:

th accustom?
rite Free

Or crazed
One Morn we misod him
The wheath side, oc rat his for

his foo rize

beside the Rill, at the Wood

yet beside

was

The most with Digges meet, in sad Awal Array
math we saw him born
thou can't read the Lay
beneath that ancient Thori

The manuscript from which the present Facsimile has been taken, is the only existing draught of the Poem, the Autograph at Pembroke House, Cambridge, being manifestly a fair copy made by the Poet, probably for circulation among his friends. This draught formed a portion of the papers bequeathed by Gray to his friend and biographer, Mason.