...the epistolary context falls away in the sort of allegorical tableau that Gray presents in The Bard ("In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; / Youth on the prow and Pleasure at the helm"): 10 I see you now, half eagerness, half ease, Ride o'er the dancing freshness of the seas; I see you...

...London letters'. 1-2, 4 eldest ... in obese repose . . . Regards: compare Thomas Gray, The Bard 74-6: Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping Whirlwind's sway, That, hushed in grim repose, The Bard is in The Golden Treasury, which TSE knew well. 2 repose: so placed...

...were born? " Gone to falute the rifing Morn. [blows, " Fair laughs the Morn, and foft the zephyr " While proudly riding o'er the azure realm " In gallant trim the gilded veflel goes ; " Youth on the prow, and pleafure at the helm ; " Regardlefsofthefweeping Whirlwind's...

...to his mind that sublime ode, "the Bard" of Gray, "Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows; While proudly riding o'er the azure realm, In gallant...hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey." 1 In such mournful meditations, and by dint of habit, or rather of his perfect recollection of every...

...rising Mora. Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blcira^ While proudly riding o'er the azare realm, In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes ; Youth on the prow and Pleasure at the helm t Regardless of the sweeping Whirlwind's sway, That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey."...

...and soft the Zephyr blows, (While proudly riding o'er the azure realm) (In gallant trim the golden vessel goes;) Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the...That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey. The Bard, written in 1757, was said by Gray "to be founded on a tradition current in Wales that Edward...