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An Evening Contemplation in a College

Being a Parody on the Elegy in A Country Church-Yard. By another Gentleman of Cambridge [i.e. John Duncombe]
Duncombe, John (1729-1786)

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O let not Temp'rance too-disdainful hear
How long our feasts, how long our dinners last;
Nor let the fair with a contemptuous sneer
On these unmarry'd men reflections cast!
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