Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard and Other Poems |
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35 While some on earnest business bent Their murmuring labors ply ' Gainst graver hours that bring constraint To sweeten liberty : Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign , And unknown regions dare descry : Still ...
35 While some on earnest business bent Their murmuring labors ply ' Gainst graver hours that bring constraint To sweeten liberty : Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign , And unknown regions dare descry : Still ...
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And while their rocky ramparts round they see , The rough abode of want and liberty , ( As lawless force from confidence will grow , ) Insult the plenty of the vales below ? What wonder , in the sultry climes , that spread Where Nile ...
And while their rocky ramparts round they see , The rough abode of want and liberty , ( As lawless force from confidence will grow , ) Insult the plenty of the vales below ? What wonder , in the sultry climes , that spread Where Nile ...
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Some clouds , which had over us hung Fled , chased by her melody clear , And methought while she liberty sung , ' Twas liberty only to hear . 25 a Thus swiftly dividing the flood , To a slave - cultured island we came , Where a Demon ...
Some clouds , which had over us hung Fled , chased by her melody clear , And methought while she liberty sung , ' Twas liberty only to hear . 25 a Thus swiftly dividing the flood , To a slave - cultured island we came , Where a Demon ...
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... ere yet liberty of choice Had found me , or the hope of being free . O 710 My very dreams were rural ; rural too 160 COWPER'S POEMS.
... ere yet liberty of choice Had found me , or the hope of being free . O 710 My very dreams were rural ; rural too 160 COWPER'S POEMS.
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... —Liberty the chief recommendation of this country Modern patriotism questionable , and - - why The perishable nature of the best human institutions 164 COWPER'S POEMS The Winter Morning Walk.
... —Liberty the chief recommendation of this country Modern patriotism questionable , and - - why The perishable nature of the best human institutions 164 COWPER'S POEMS The Winter Morning Walk.
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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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