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Gay Hope Is Theirs By Fancy Fed, Less Pleasing When Posse
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Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed,
Less pleasing when possest;
The tear forgot as soon as shed,
The sunshine of the breast.
-- Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
-- On a Distant Prospect of Eton College, Stanza 5
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Ye distant spires, ye antique towers.
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Ah, tell them they are men!
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They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
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Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain!
Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain!...
Alas! regardless of their doom, The little victims play
No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day....
To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan,-- The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own.
Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies?...
The breezy call of incense-breathing morn.
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For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?
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