Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
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... holy text around she strews , That teach the rustic moralist to die . For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey , This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd , Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day , Nor cast one longing ling'ring look ...
... holy text around she strews , That teach the rustic moralist to die . For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey , This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd , Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day , Nor cast one longing ling'ring look ...
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... holy head . Above , below , the rose of snow , Twined with her blushing foe , we spread : The bristled boar in infant - gore Wallows beneath the thorny shade . Now , brothers , bending o'er the accursèd loom , Stamp we our vengeance ...
... holy head . Above , below , the rose of snow , Twined with her blushing foe , we spread : The bristled boar in infant - gore Wallows beneath the thorny shade . Now , brothers , bending o'er the accursèd loom , Stamp we our vengeance ...
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... holy shade ; And ye , that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights th ' expanse below Of grove , of lawn , of mead survey , Whose turf , whose shade , whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver - winding way : Ah ...
... holy shade ; And ye , that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights th ' expanse below Of grove , of lawn , of mead survey , Whose turf , whose shade , whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver - winding way : Ah ...
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abode affright alike ample arms azure baleful beneath blow blush born bosom breast breathe Cambria's cheer cries crown dauntless Dear Death deep dews Disdainful distant doom dreary E'en e'er Ecstasy ELEGY faded fame Fancy fate fears fire flame flowers fond Forbade forlorn Gales glitter glory golden grisly Hark Headlong hear heart Heav'n Helm hoary holy hush'd Jove kindred King Labor laid lance laughing lawn light Love lyre mighty mock morn Muse Muse's night noontide o'er pain Penury Pindaric Ode pleasing POEMS pomp prey pride Quench'd race Rapture reign rill rove sable sceptred scorn secret shade shaggy Shame Shrieks sleep slumber smile Snowdon's soft solemn Sorrow's soul spirit steep strains stray'd sublime sweet tear Thames thee Thine thou thro tremble turf Tyrant unroll vale Vocal voice warbled warm wave Weave Where'er wild wing wood woof yonder youth