 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 pages
...he : "The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. 35 Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." EPITAPH. Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown : Fair... | |
 | 432 pages
...the end of the poem, before his epitaph ; but is well worthy of insertion : — " There scattcr'd, oft the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found, The redbreast comes to build and nestle there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." The house where Gray... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 1849 - 432 pages
...the end of the poem, hefore his epitaph ; but is well worthy of insertion : — " There scutter'd, oft the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violcis found, The redbreast comes to build and nestle there, And little footsteps lightly print the... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1857 - 1022 pages
..."Elegy," better than some of the stanzas he retained, and most people will agree •with Eogers : — "There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are show'rs of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1977 - 302 pages
...schoolboys still read the Elegy) with what lines Gray introduces the Kpitaph, and he will know them : ' .Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.' Hut an editor of the Klegy (whether or not as pan of an Knglish bible) will be bound to show, by whatever... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pages
...came, nor yet beside the rill, 'The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst...the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.' The Epitaph Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown. Fair... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...wood was he; 'The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him bome. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thom." THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown.... | |
 | Tony Bex - 1996 - 244 pages
...Contemplation led. Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate. Haply some hoary-headed swain may say . . . 'Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay. Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.' (Thomas Gray. 'Elegy Written in A Country Churchyard') Again, specialist readers will notice a similar... | |
 | Tony Bex - 1996 - 238 pages
...spirit shall inquire thy fate. Haply some hoary-headed swain may say . . . 'Approach and read tfor thou canst read) the lay. Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.' tThomas Gray. 'Elegy Written in A Country Churchyard') Again. specialist readers will notice a similar... | |
 | Sandie Byrne - 1997 - 258 pages
...ghost's extension of a bony finger. It also echoes the invitation of Gray's 'hoary-headed swain' to 'Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.'103 This 'real' epitaph is given a complex counterpart, in the palimpsest of writings, visible... | |
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One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree ; Another came : nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he : The next, with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw... 
