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For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, / This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, / Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, / Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, / This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, / Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, / Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
Approximate author period: c. 1743 AD · early modern
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- Thomas Gray
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- Approximate author period: c. 1743 AD · early modern
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Gray. · page_112
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