Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade!
Ah, fields beloved 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.
-- Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
-- On a Distant Prospect of Eton College, Stanza 2
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