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SAMUEL ROGERS, ESQ.

THIS EDITION OF

GRAY

IS INSCRIBED

WITH FEELINGS OF RESPECT AND ESTEEM

BY THE EDITOR.

SONNE T.

A LONELY Man he was, from whom these lays
Flow'd in his cloister'd musings: He in scorn
Held them, the unfeeling multitude, who born
For deeds of nobler purpose, their ripe days
Waste amidst fraudful industry, to raise
Inglorious wealth. - But He, life's studious morn
Gave to the Muse, so best might he adorn
His thoughtful brow with never-dying bays.
And well the Muse repaid him. She hath given
An unsubstantial world of richer fee;

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High thoughts, unchanging visions, that the leaven Of earth partake not ;· - Rich then must he be, Who of this cloudless world, this mortal heaven, Possesseth in his right the Sovereignty.

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