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WORKS

OF

THOMAS GRAY;

VOL. 1.

CONTAINING

THE POEMS,

WITH CRITICAL NOTES;

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR;

AND AN

ESSAY ON HIS POETRY;

BY THE REV. JOHN MITFORD.

UNIVERSITY O

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. MAWMAN, 39, LUDGATE-STREET,

BY S. HAMILTON, WEYBRIDGE, SURREY.

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SONNET.

A LONELY Man he was, from whom these lays
Flow'd in his cloister'd musings: He in scorn
Held them, the unfeeling multitude, who born
For deeds of nobler purpose, their ripe days
Waste amidst fraudful industry, to raise
Inglorious wealth.-But He, life's studious morn
Gave to the Muse, so best might he adorn
His thoughtful brow, with never-dying bays.
And well the Muse repay'd him. She hath given
An unsubstantial world of richer fee;

High thoughts, unchanging visions, that the leaven
Of earth partake not;-Rich then must he be,
Who of this cloudless world, this mortal heaven,
Possesseth in his right the Sovereignty.

VOL. I.

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