Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard and Other Poems |
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Beneath those rugged elms , that yew - tree's shade , Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap , Each in his narrow cell forever laid , The rude o forefathers of the hamlet sleep . 15 O The breezy call of incense - breathing morn ...
Beneath those rugged elms , that yew - tree's shade , Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap , Each in his narrow cell forever laid , The rude o forefathers of the hamlet sleep . 15 O The breezy call of incense - breathing morn ...
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How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! 30 Let not ambition mock their useful toil , Their homely joys , and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor .
How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! 30 Let not ambition mock their useful toil , Their homely joys , and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor .
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“ The next , with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne : Approach and read ( for thou can'st read ) the lay 115 ' Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn . ° " THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon ...
“ The next , with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne : Approach and read ( for thou can'st read ) the lay 115 ' Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn . ° " THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon ...
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80 Lo ! in the vale of years beneath A griesly troop are seen , The painful family of Death , More hideous than their queen : This racks the joints , this fires the veins , ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE 11.
80 Lo ! in the vale of years beneath A griesly troop are seen , The painful family of Death , More hideous than their queen : This racks the joints , this fires the veins , ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE 11.
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And oft , beneath the odorous shade Of Chili's boundless forests laid , She deigns to hear the savage youth repeat , 60 In loose numbers wildly sweet , Their feather - cinctured chiefs , and dusky loves .
And oft , beneath the odorous shade Of Chili's boundless forests laid , She deigns to hear the savage youth repeat , 60 In loose numbers wildly sweet , Their feather - cinctured chiefs , and dusky loves .
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| Title | Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard and Other Poems Macmillian's pocket American and English classics |
| Author | Thomas Gray |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1909 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 22 Jan 2019 |
| Length | 268 pages |
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