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... For who 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.
... For who 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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Thomas Gray. On some fond breast the parting soul relies , Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries , Ev'n in our Ashes live their wonted Fires . For thee , who mindful of th ' unhonour'd ...
Thomas Gray. On some fond breast the parting soul relies , Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries , Ev'n in our Ashes live their wonted Fires . For thee , who mindful of th ' unhonour'd ...
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... soul sincere , Heav'n did a recompence as largely send : He gave to Mis'ry all he had , a tear , He gain'd from Heav'n ( ' twas all he wish'd ) a friend . No farther seek his merits to disclose , Or draw his frailties from their dread ...
... soul sincere , Heav'n did a recompence as largely send : He gave to Mis'ry all he had , a tear , He gain'd from Heav'n ( ' twas all he wish'd ) a friend . No farther seek his merits to disclose , Or draw his frailties from their dread ...
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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