urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:	edition	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1	eceptext	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.1	head	Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.2	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.2.1	l	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.2.1.1	l	[Era gia l' ora, che volge 'l disio
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.2.1.2	l	A' naviganti, e 'ntenerisce 'l cuore
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.2.1.3	l	Lo di ch' han detto a' dolci amici addio:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.2.1.4	l	E che lo nuovo peregrin d' amore
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.2.1.5	l	Punge, se ode] — squilla di lontano
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.2.1.6	l	Che paia 'l giorno pianger, che si muore.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.2.1.7	l	[(It was already the hour which turns back the desire
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.2.1.8	l	Of the sailors, and melts their hearts,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.2.1.9	l	The day that they have said good-bye to their sweet friends,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.2.1.10	l	And which pierces the new pilgrim with love,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.2.1.11	l	If he hears) — from afar the bell
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.2.1.12	l	Which seems to mourn the dying day.]
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.2.2	l	The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.2.3	l	The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.2.4	l	And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.3	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.3.1	l	Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.3.2	l	And all the air a solemn stillness holds,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.3.3	l	Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.3.4	l	And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.4	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.4.1	l	Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.4.2	l	The moping owl does to the moon complain
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.4.3	l	Of such, as wandering near her secret bower,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.4.4	l	Molest her ancient solitary reign.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.5	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.5.1	l	Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.5.2	l	Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.5.3	l	Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.5.4	l	The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.6	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.6.1	l	The breezy call of incense-breathing morn,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.6.2	l	The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.6.3	l	The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.6.4	l	No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.7	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.7.1	l	For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.7.2	l	Or busy housewife ply her evening care:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.7.3	l	No children run to lisp their sire's return,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.7.4	l	Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.8	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.8.1	l	Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.8.2	l	Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.8.3	l	How jocund did they drive their team afield!
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.8.4	l	How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.9	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.9.1	l	Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.9.2	l	Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.9.3	l	Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.9.4	l	The short and simple annals of the poor.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.10	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.10.1	l	The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.10.2	l	And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.10.3	l	Awaits alike the inevitable hour.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.10.4	l	The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.11	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.11.1	l	Nor you, ye Proud, impute to these the fault,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.11.2	l	If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.11.3	l	Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.11.4	l	The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.12	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.12.1	l	Can storied urn or animated bust
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.12.2	l	Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.12.3	l	Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.12.4	l	Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death?
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.13	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.13.1	l	Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.13.2	l	Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.13.3	l	Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.13.4	l	Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.14	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.14.1	l	But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.14.2	l	Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.14.3	l	Chill Penury repressed their noble rage,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.14.4	l	And froze the genial current of the soul.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.15	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.15.1	l	Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.15.2	l	The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.15.3	l	Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.15.4	l	And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.16	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.16.1	l	Some village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.16.2	l	The little tyrant of his fields withstood;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.16.3	l	Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.16.4	l	Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.17	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.17.1	l	The applause of listening senates to command,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.17.2	l	The threats of pain and ruin to despise,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.17.3	l	To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.17.4	l	And read their history in a nation's eyes,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.18	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.18.1	l	Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.18.2	l	Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.18.3	l	Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.18.4	l	And shut the gates of mercy on mankind,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.19	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.19.1	l	The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.19.2	l	To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.19.3	l	Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.19.4	l	With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.20	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.20.1	l	Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.20.2	l	Their sober wishes never learned to stray;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.20.3	l	Along the cool sequestered vale of life
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.20.4	l	They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.21	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.21.1	l	Yet even these bones from insult to protect
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.21.2	l	Some frail memorial still erected nigh,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.21.3	l	With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.21.4	l	Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.22	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.22.1	l	Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered muse,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.22.2	l	The place of fame and elegy supply:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.22.3	l	And many a holy text around she strews,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.22.4	l	That teach the rustic moralist to die.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.23	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.23.1	l	For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.23.2	l	This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.23.3	l	Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.23.4	l	Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.24	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.24.1	l	On some fond breast the parting soul relies,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.24.2	l	Some pious drops the closing eye requires;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.24.3	l	Ev'n from the tomb the voice of nature cries,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.24.4	l	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.24.4.1	l	Ch'i veggio nel pensier, dolce mio fuoco,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.24.4.2	l	Fredda una lingua, & due begli occhi chiusi
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.24.4.3	l	Rimaner doppo noi pien di faville.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.24.4.4	l	[For I see in my thoughts, my sweet fire,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.24.4.5	l	One cold tongue, and two beautiful closed eyes
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.24.4.6	l	Will remain full of sparks after our death.]
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.25	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.25.1	l	For thee, who mindful of the unhonoured dead
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.25.2	l	Dost in these lines their artless tale relate;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.25.3	l	If chance, by lonely Contemplation led,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.25.4	l	Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.26	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.26.1	l	Haply some hoary-headed swain may say,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.26.2	l	'Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.26.3	l	'Brushing with hasty steps the dews away
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.26.4	l	'To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.27	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.27.1	l	'There at the foot of yonder nodding beech
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.27.2	l	'That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.27.3	l	'His listless length at noontide would he stretch,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.27.4	l	'And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.28	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.28.1	l	'Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.28.2	l	'Muttering his wayward fancies he would rove,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.28.3	l	'Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.28.4	l	'Or crazed with care, or crossed in hopeless love.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.29	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.29.1	l	'One morn I missed him on the customed hill,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.29.2	l	'Along the heath and near his favourite tree;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.29.3	l	'Another came; nor yet beside the rill,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.29.4	l	'Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.30	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.30.1	l	'The next with dirges due in sad array
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.30.2	l	'Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.30.3	l	'Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.30.4	l	'Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.'
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.31	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.31.1	head	The Epitaph
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.31.2	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.31.2.1	l	Here rests his head upon the lap of earth
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.31.2.2	l	A youth to fortune and to fame unknown.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.31.2.3	l	Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.31.2.4	l	And Melancholy marked him for her own.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.31.3	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.31.3.1	l	Large was his bounty and his soul sincere,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.31.3.2	l	Heaven did a recompence as largely send:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.31.3.3	l	He gave to Misery all he had, a tear,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.31.3.4	l	He gained from Heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.31.4	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.31.4.1	l	No farther seek his merits to disclose,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.31.4.2	l	Or draw his frailties from their dread abode,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.31.4.3	l	(There they alike in trembling hope<note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="bottom"> <q>— paventosa speme. [— fearful hope]</q> <bibl> <emph>Petrarch. Son.</emph> 114. [115 in usual enumeration]</bibl> </note> repose)
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard.English.1716_elcc:1.31.4.4	l	The bosom of his Father and his God.