...read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn. [" There scattered3 oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; 1 For thee, Sfc. — ie as to thee. The remainder of the poem refers to the character and circumstances...

...read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn. 130 YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND. here scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are...violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground."^. THE EPITAPH. Here rests his head upon the...

...branches of the overhanging trees, as the night wind sighs among them, sing his lullaby. " There gather'd oft the earliest of the year. By hands unseen are...violets found ; The red,breast loves to build and warble there. And little footsteps lightly print the ground." THE END. C. WHITISO, BEAUFOBT UOUSE, STBAXD....

...earliest of the year;"(i) (1) E" Gray's omftted stanza — ' Here scatter'd oft, the earliest of He year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found...here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' i . as fine as any in the Elegy. I wonder that he could have the heart to omit if — A Diary, Feb....

...a parenthesis at the end of the poem before the epitaph, but it is well worthy of insertion. There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands...violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. This mention of the early violets, reminds me...

...From a Letter to The other rejected Stanza was omitted, as forming; too long a parenthesis: " There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, " By hands...found; " The red-breast loves to build and warble there, " And little footsteps lightly print the ground." Gray never produced any lines more exquisitely...

...parenthesis at the end of the poem before the epitaph, but it is well worthy of insertion. There scatter' d oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are...violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. This mention of the early violets, reminds me...

...parenthesis at the end of the poem before the epitaph; but it is well worthy of insertion. " There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands...violets found ; The red-breast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." Nor should we forget that those learned divines,...

...but it is well worthy of insertion. " There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unscen are showers of violets found ; The red-breast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." Nor should we forget that those learned divines,...

...redbreast, sacred to the household gods, Pays to trusted man his annual visit." Thomson. " There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are...violets found : The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." " The redbreast oft at evening hours Shall kindly...