One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne.... The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray - Page 109by Thomas Gray - 1851 - 223 pagesFull view - About this book
| Cam river - 1841 - 318 pages
...yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he : The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.' THE EPITAPH. Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth,... | |
| Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...nor at the wood' was he,. | The next, with dirges due, in sad array, | Slow through the church-yard path', we saw him borne, — | Approach, and read' ('for thou canst read') 2the lay', | 'Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn,." THE EPITAPH. Here rests Ais head upon the... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1842 - 386 pages
...rill', Nor up the laiou', nor at the wood' . .was he'. The next?, with dirges due', in sad array', Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne';...Approach and read' (for thou canst read') the lay', *Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn'." THE EPITAPH. Here rests his head upon the lap of earth',... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...through the church-way path we saw him bomc: Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved y bending, And giving out a shout most heaven-rending,...Upon thy Mount Lycean ! Ode to a Nightingale. My frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own. Large ivas his bounty, and... | |
| William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 328 pages
...hom*. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone heneath yon aged thorn. Ill THE EPITAPH. HERE rests his head upon the lap of Earth,...Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown ; Fair Science frowu'd not on his humhle hirih, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his hounty, and his... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.' ТЛЕ EPITAPH. Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth,...Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown ; Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his... | |
| Orville Dewey - Theology - 1844 - 904 pages
...beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he. The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne...— Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." His monument, looking towards the churchyard, still seemed... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he ; " The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne...Approach, and read, (for thou canst read,) the lay. Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." THE EPITAPH. Here rests his head, upon the lap of earth,... | |
| George Willson - American literature - 1844 - 300 pages
...\he rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood, was he : 29 " The next, with dirges due, and sad array, Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." The Epitaph. 30 Here rests his head upon the lap of earth... | |
| Thomas Gray - Death - 1845 - 92 pages
...wood, was he ; . ., I XXIX. " The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church- way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou...lay, Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." XXX. Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth, A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair Science... | |
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