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... tree's shade , Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap , The rude
forefathers of the hamlet sleep . C V. The swallow twittering from the straw - built.
Each in his narrow cell for ever laid , The breezy call of incense - breathing Morn ,
... tree's shade , Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap , The rude
forefathers of the hamlet sleep . C V. The swallow twittering from the straw - built.
Each in his narrow cell for ever laid , The breezy call of incense - breathing Morn ,
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V. The swallow twittering from the straw - built shed , The cock's shrill clarion , or
the echoing horn , No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed . VI . Or busy
housewife ply her evening care ;. The breezy call of incense - breathing Morn ,
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V. The swallow twittering from the straw - built shed , The cock's shrill clarion , or
the echoing horn , No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed . VI . Or busy
housewife ply her evening care ;. The breezy call of incense - breathing Morn ,
For ...
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Thomas Gray John Martin. TinEW YORK BLIC LIBRARI ATOM , LINUXAVO
TILLATIONS XXVIII . “ One morn , I miss'd him on.
Thomas Gray John Martin. TinEW YORK BLIC LIBRARI ATOM , LINUXAVO
TILLATIONS XXVIII . “ One morn , I miss'd him on.
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One morn , I miss'd him on the ' custom'd hill , Along the heath , and near his
favourite tree ; Nor up the lawn , nor at the wood , was he ; XXIX . Slow through
the church - way path we. Another came , —nor yet beside the rill , “ The next ,
with ...
One morn , I miss'd him on the ' custom'd hill , Along the heath , and near his
favourite tree ; Nor up the lawn , nor at the wood , was he ; XXIX . Slow through
the church - way path we. Another came , —nor yet beside the rill , “ The next ,
with ...
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| Title | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
| Author | Thomas Gray |
| Editor | John Martin |
| Illustrated by | Reuben S. Gilbert |
| Publisher | Moore, 1845 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 2 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 11 pages |
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