An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (1751) and The Eton College Manuscript Quotes

“Ah, happy hills, ah, pleasing shade,
Ah, fields belov'd in vain,
Where once my careless childhood stray'd,
A stranger yet to pain!
I feel the gales, that from ye blow,
A momentary bliss bestow,
As waving fresh their gladsome wing,
My weary soul they seem to soothe,
And, redolent of joy and youth,
To breathe a second spring.”
― Thomas Gray, An Elegy In A Country Churchyard: And Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Eton College