...bird, and its appropriate place of retreat : — • " From yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping Owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign." When the dusk comes on, away it flies after its food. It...

...And drowsy tiuklings lull the distant folds : Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret hower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves...

...ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient, solitary reign. " Beneath those...that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, — Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, — The rude forefathers of the hamlet...

...Moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. tr IV. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep....

...Friedhof, die einstimmende Exposition geht zuende, das eigentliche Thema beginnt: (4. -6. Strophe) Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a nould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rüde Forefathers of the hamlet sleep....

...dead on their land, often right in the middle of the farming acres. One is reminded of Gray's "Elegy": "Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade/ Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap/ Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,/ The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep."...

...ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged...that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep....

...Churchyard" in its earliest and latest forms reads: Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near...her secret bow'r Molest her ancient solitary reign. Being in the dimly lit church graveyard could lead one to have voiced "sacred bower," but the poetic,...

...distant folds; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r The moping owl does to the moon complain 10 Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bow'r, Molest...mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, is The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. THOMAS GRAY (1716-71) Curfew - bell rung at the...

...people kept their churchyards nearby, like the dead field at Stoke Poges that Thomas Gray celebrated: Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade....in many a mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The eighteenth century in England produced...