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more the blazing hearth shall burn, usewife ply her evening-care: un to lisp their sire's return,

is knees the envied kiss to share.

arvest to their sickle yield,

w oft the stubborn glebe has broke: did they drive their team afield! I'd the woods beneath their sturdy

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ition mock their useful toil, ely joys, and destiny obscure; ir hear with a disdainful smile and simple annals of the poor.

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you, ye Proud, impute to these the fault, Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, ere thro' the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault

The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.

1 storied urn or animated bust,

Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? n Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry sooth the dull cold ear of Death?

rhaps in this neglected spot is laid

Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; ands, that the rod of empire might have. sway'd,

Or wak'd to ecstasy the living lyre.

em of purest ray serene

fathom'd caves of Ocean bear: >wer is born to blush unseen,

ts sweetness on the desert air.

ampden, that, with dauntless breast, yrant of his fields withstood, glorious Milton here may rest, nwell guiltless of his country's 1].

Author of the Canons of Criticism) who, though an . Gray, was more attentive to the fair sex than our voured to supply what he thought a defect in this troducing after this the two following stanzas, the inly the happiest effort of the two:

fair, whose unaffected charms

h attraction to herself unknown;

aty might have blest a monarch's arms, e cast a lustre on the throne:

That

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That humble beauty

And cheer'd the la
That virtue form'd, f
The healthy offsp

[9) After this verse, in Mr.
following:-

The thoughtless
Exalt the brave
But more to inno

Than Pow'r or

ir lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone

heir growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Dade to wade through slaughter to a throne, nd shut the gates of mercy on mankind,

e struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame, heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride

With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. [2]

That humble beauty warm'd an honest heart,
And cheer'd the labours of a faithful spouse;
That virtue form'd, for every decent part,

The healthy offspring that adorn'd their house.

[2] After this verse, in Mr. Gray's first MS. of the Poem, were the four lowing:

The thoughtless world to Majesty may bow,
Exalt the brave, and idolize success;
But more to innocence their safety owe,
Than Pow'r or Genius e'er conspir'd to bless.

And

ones from insult to protect morial still erected nigh,

rhymes and shapeless sculpture

passing tribute of a sigh.

who, mindful of th' unhonour'd Dead,
ese notes their artless tale relate,
d lonely contemplation led
er in the gloomy walks of fate:

the sacred calm, that breathes around,
y fierce tumultuous passion cease;

l accents whispering from the ground,
l earnest of eternal peace.

with reason and thyself at strife,
ious cares and endless wishes room;
n the cool sequester'd vale of life
e silent tenor of thy doom.

was originally intended to conclude, before the Dary-headed Swain, &c. suggested itself to him. third of these rejected stanzas equal to any in the

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Some pious drops t

Er'n from the tomb t
Ev'nin our Ashes

(3) Variation:-Awake and
Thus says Mr. Mason) it st
ts, and I think rather bett
destroy the appearance of qua
is rather obscurely expressed
pain prose, that we wish to
death, in the same manner as
by them in our absence.

(1) Ev'n in our as
Ch'i veggio ne
Fredda una lin
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