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Sonnet,

me the smilking Mornings shine,

to me

vain to

redning Phabus lifts his golden Fire: The Birds in vain their amorous Descan't joyn;

their green

green Attin

Or chearful Fields resume
These Cors alas, for other Notes repine,
of different Object do these Eyes require.
My Lonely Anguish melts

And in And in my

Breast

es no Heart, but min

the imperfect Joy's expire

Yet Morning smiles the be

smiles the busy Race to

Pleasure brings to happier

brings to happier Men

bear

And new-born Pleasure brings to
The Fields to all their wonted Tribute
So warm their little Loves the Birds complain:

In to him, that connot hear,

mourn

And weep the

more, because

because I weep in vain. *

in vain. at Stoke Ang

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FACSIMILE OF SONNET TO RICHARD WEST.

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THE WORKS

OF

THOMAS GRAY

En Prose and Verse

EDITED BY

EDMUND GOSSE

CLARK LECTURER ON ENGLISH LITERATURE AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

IN FOUR VOLS. – VOL. IV.

NOTES ON ARISTOPHANES AND PLATO

London

MACMILLAN AND CO.

1884

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