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"Glance their many-twinkling feet."
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"Save that from yonder ivy-mantled towr The moping owl does to the moon complain."
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Thomas Gray was an English poet, letter-writer, and classical scholar at Cambridge University, being a fellow first of Peterhouse then of Pembroke College. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751. Gray was a self-critical writer who published only 13 poems in his lifetime, despite being very popular. He was even offered the position of Poet Laureate in 1
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"The breezy call of incense-breathing morn."
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"Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tortring hour The bad affright, afflict the best!"
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"While bright-eyed Science watches round."
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"Her track, whereer the goddess roves, Glory pursue, and genrous shame, Th unconquerable mind, 3 and freedoms holy flame."
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"Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune."
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