Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
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... pain and ruin to despise , To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land , And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes , Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues , but their crimes con- fin'd ; Forbade to wade through ...
... pain and ruin to despise , To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land , And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes , Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues , but their crimes con- fin'd ; Forbade to wade through ...
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... Pain , Disease , and Sorrow's weeping train , And Death , sad refuge from the storms of fate ! The fond complaint , my song , disprove , And justify the laws of Jove . Say , has he given in vain the heav'nly Muse ? Night and all her ...
... Pain , Disease , and Sorrow's weeping train , And Death , sad refuge from the storms of fate ! The fond complaint , my song , disprove , And justify the laws of Jove . Say , has he given in vain the heav'nly Muse ? Night and all her ...
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... painful family of Death , More hideous than their queen : This racks the joints , this fires the veins , That every ... pain , Th ' unfeeling for his own . Yet , ah ! why should they know their fate , Since sorrow never comes too late ...
... painful family of Death , More hideous than their queen : This racks the joints , this fires the veins , That every ... pain , Th ' unfeeling for his own . Yet , ah ! why should they know their fate , Since sorrow never comes too late ...
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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