Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard and Other Poems |
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... o'er the lea , The ploughman homeward plods his weary way , And leaves the world to darkness and to me . Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight , 5 And all the air a solemn stillness holds , Save where the beetle wheels his ...
... o'er the lea , The ploughman homeward plods his weary way , And leaves the world to darkness and to me . Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight , 5 And all the air a solemn stillness holds , Save where the beetle wheels his ...
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... 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 . 40 Can storied urn , or animated bust , Back to 2 GRAY'S POEMS.
... 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 . 40 Can storied urn , or animated bust , Back to 2 GRAY'S POEMS.
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... 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 ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCH - YARD 3.
... 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 ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCH - YARD 3.
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... O'er - canopies the glade , Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Museo shall sit , and think ( At ease reclined in rustic state ) How vain the ardor of the crowd , How low , how little are the proud , How indigent ° the great ...
... O'er - canopies the glade , Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Museo shall sit , and think ( At ease reclined in rustic state ) How vain the ardor of the crowd , How low , how little are the proud , How indigent ° the great ...
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... O'er Idalia's velvet - green ° The rosy - crowned Loves are seen On Cytherea's dayo : With antic Sport , and blue - eyed Pleasures , Frisking light in frolic measures ; Now pursuing , now retreating , 30 Now in circling troops they meet ...
... O'er Idalia's velvet - green ° The rosy - crowned Loves are seen On Cytherea's dayo : With antic Sport , and blue - eyed Pleasures , Frisking light in frolic measures ; Now pursuing , now retreating , 30 Now in circling troops they meet ...
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