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... woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil , Their homely joys , and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile , The short and simple annals of the poor . The boast of heraldy , the ...
... woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil , Their homely joys , and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile , The short and simple annals of the poor . The boast of heraldy , the ...
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... wood , now smiling as in scorn , ' Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he would rove ; ' Now drooping , woeful wan , like one forlorn , ' Or craz'd with care , or cross'd in hopeless love . ' One morn I miss'd him on the custom'd hill ...
... wood , now smiling as in scorn , ' Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he would rove ; ' Now drooping , woeful wan , like one forlorn , ' Or craz'd with care , or cross'd in hopeless love . ' One morn I miss'd him on the custom'd hill ...
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Thomas Gray. ' Nor up the lawn , nor at the wood was he ; " The next with dirges due in sad array ' Slow thro ' the church - way path we saw him born . ' Approach and read ( for thou can'st read ) the lay , ' Grav'd on the stone beneath ...
Thomas Gray. ' Nor up the lawn , nor at the wood was he ; " The next with dirges due in sad array ' Slow thro ' the church - way path we saw him born . ' Approach and read ( for thou can'st read ) the lay , ' Grav'd on the stone beneath ...
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