...with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne ; " 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 EPITAPH. Here rests his head upon the lap...

...with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne ; " 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 EPITAPH. Here rests his head upon the lap...

...return, Or elimb his knees the envied kiss to share. Gray's Churehyard. Here seatter'd oft, the loveliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets...found • The redbreast loves to build and warble hero. And little footsteps lightly print the ground Gray's Ckurehyarv 208 GRAVE. Perhaps in this negleeted...

...stanza which Gray threw out of his Elegy is better than some of the stanzas he has retained : " 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." * For this expression Gray was indebted to Virgil...

...stanza which Gray threw out of his Elegy is better than some of the stanzas he has retained; " 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." * For this expression Gray was indebted to Virgil;...

...read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn. [" There scattered2 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 lap...

...lines which in a moment of unpardonable hypercriticisrn, he rejected from his elegy. 1 There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets (band: The Bed-breast loves to build and warble near, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.'...

...hypercriticism, he rejected from his elegy. ' There scattered oft, the earliest of the year. By bands nnseen are showers of violets found : The Red-breast loves to build and warble near, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' And more directly still, Collins, in his ' Dirge...

...editions of Gray's Elegy, before the Epitaph, the following exquisite lines were inserted : — 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. About the same time Collins' " Dirge in Cymbeline...

...as originally printed, the following beautiful stanza preceded the epitaph : — " There scattered 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." It was afterward* omitted, because he thought...