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... tribute to the Com- mon Man which touches almost all of us and which , together with the evocation of Nature and the quiet praise of rural life : ' its useful toil , its homely joys ' , gave promise then of something fresh in the dying ...
... tribute to the Com- mon Man which touches almost all of us and which , together with the evocation of Nature and the quiet praise of rural life : ' its useful toil , its homely joys ' , gave promise then of something fresh in the dying ...
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... tribute of a sigh . Their name , their years , spelt by th ' unletter'd muse , The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews , That teach the rustic moralist to die . For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey ...
... tribute of a sigh . Their name , their years , spelt by th ' unletter'd muse , The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews , That teach the rustic moralist to die . For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey ...
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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