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...shade, Ah, fields beloved in vain, Where once my careless childhood strayed, A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss...pleasure trace, Who foremost now delight to cleave, With pliant arm thy glassy wave? The captive linnet which enthral 1 What idle progeny succeed To chase...

...pleasing shade! Ah fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, (1. 11—13) 14 The mouX . (1. 17-19) 15 Still as they run they look behind. They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful...

...argument. One is taken from mid-eighteenth-century poetry; the other is taken from a poem by Wordsworth. Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a...pleasure trace, Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave? (Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College) In the sweet...

...beloved in vain, Where once my careless childhood strayed, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the glades, that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As waving...redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. (PTG 57) refresh and console him'.27 Another chronicler of Gray's life concludes his account of the...

...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...fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. His momentary bliss and nostalgic...