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" Ah, happy hills, ah, pleasing shade,
Ah, fields belov'd 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,
As waving fresh their gladsome wing,
My weary soul they seem to soothe,
And, redolent of joy and youth,
To breathe a second spring. "

Thomas Gray , An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (1751) and The Eton College Manuscript


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Thomas Gray quote : Ah, happy hills, ah, pleasing shade, <br /> Ah, fields belov'd in vain, <br />Where once my careless childhood stray'd, <br /> A stranger yet to pain! <br />I feel the gales, that from ye blow, <br />A momentary bliss bestow, <br /> As waving fresh their gladsome wing, <br />My weary soul they seem to soothe, <br />And, redolent of joy and youth, <br /> To breathe a second spring.