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Thomas Gray on Sadness

1716–1771 England

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And weep the more, because I weep in vain.

Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.

The tear forgot as soon as shed,
The sunshine of the breast.

Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth
A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown.
Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth.
And Melancholy marked him for her own.

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1750)

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