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... e'er Await alike th ' inevitable hour . gave , The paths of glory lead but to the grave . Nor you , ye Proud , impute to These the fault , If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise , Where thro ' the long - drawn isle and fretted ...
... e'er Await alike th ' inevitable hour . gave , The paths of glory lead but to the grave . Nor you , ye Proud , impute to These the fault , If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise , Where thro ' the long - drawn isle and fretted ...
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... to dumb Forgetfulness a prey , This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd , Left the warm precincts of the chearful day , Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies , Some 16.
... to dumb Forgetfulness a prey , This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd , Left the warm precincts of the chearful day , Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies , Some 16.
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affected alike ALLENTOWN attack beauty beneath blood blush bold Books born bosom breast cast COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD critic dark Death e'er echo ELEGY Written Eton Ev'n eyes fame Fires Forbad Full gave Hands heap Heav'n homely joys interest Johnson laid Large lawn live Melancholy Memory mind Morn mother Nature never noble o'er path PENNSYLVANIA Perhaps poem popular praise rest rupture Save short smiling sober soul success Thomas Gray thro toil tomb tribute UNIVERSITY verse voice Walpole wood yonder