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One morn I miss'd him on the custom'd hill, Along the heath, and near his fav'rite tree: Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he.

One morn I miss'd him on the custom'd hill, Along the heath, and near his fav'rite tree: Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he.

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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Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)

Elegy in a Country Churchyard. Stanza 28.

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