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GRAY'S POEMS ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH - YARDO o The curfew tolls the knell of parting day , The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea , The ploughman homeward plods his weary way , And leaves the world to darkness and to me .
GRAY'S POEMS ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH - YARDO o The curfew tolls the knell of parting day , The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea , The ploughman homeward plods his weary way , And leaves the world to darkness and to me .
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35 Nor you , ye proud , impute to these the fault , If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise , Where through the long - drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise .
35 Nor you , ye proud , impute to these the fault , If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise , Where through the long - drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise .
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60 The applause of listening senates to command , The threats of pain and ruin to despise , To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land , And read their history in a nation's eyes , 65 Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing ...
60 The applause of listening senates to command , The threats of pain and ruin to despise , To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land , And read their history in a nation's eyes , 65 Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing ...
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10 o 15 Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader browner shade , Where'er the rude and moss - grown beech O'er - canopies the glade , o Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Museo shall sit , and think ( At ease ...
10 o 15 Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader browner shade , Where'er the rude and moss - grown beech O'er - canopies the glade , o Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Museo shall sit , and think ( At ease ...
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O'er Idalia's velvet - greeno The rosy - crowned Loveso are seen On Cytherea's dayo : With antic Sport , and blue - eyed Pleasures , 30 Frisking light in frolic measures ; Now pursuing , now retreating , Now in circling troops they meet ...
O'er Idalia's velvet - greeno The rosy - crowned Loveso are seen On Cytherea's dayo : With antic Sport , and blue - eyed Pleasures , 30 Frisking light in frolic measures ; Now pursuing , now retreating , Now in circling troops they meet ...
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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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