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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! 'd the woods beneath their sturdy

!

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

Nor you, ye Proud, im If Memory o'er thei Where thro' the long vault The pealing anthen

Can storied urn or an Back to its mansion Can Honour's voice

Or Flatt'ry sooth t

Perhaps in this negle Some heart once Hands, that the r sway'd, Or wak'd to ecsta

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: ower 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 th attraction to herself unknown; aty might have blest a monarch's arms, e cast a lustre on the throne:

That

Their lot forbade: nor Their growing virtue Forbade to wade throu

And shut the gates

The struggling pangs
To quench the blu
Or heap the shrine o
With incense kind

That humble beauty
And cheer'd the la
That virtue form'd, f
The healthy offspr

[2] After this verse, in Mr.
following:-

The thoughtless w
Exalt the brave
But more to innc
Than Pow'r or

ir lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Dade to wade through slaughter to a throne, and 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.

For who, to dumb For This pleasing anxiou Left the warm precinc Nor cast one longin

On some fond breast Some pious drops t Ev'n from the tomb t Ev'nin our Ashes [

ho, mindful of th' unhonour'd Dead,
nese 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;
I accents whispering from the ground,
I earnest of eternal peace.

ith reason and thyself at strife,
ious cares and endless wishes room;
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

[3] Variation: Awake and Thus (says Mr. Mason) it st bonus, and I think rather bette destroy the appearance of quan 15 rather obscurely expressed plain 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 Rimaner dopp

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