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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]

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Forgive, ye fair, th' involuntary fault,
If these no feats of gayety display,
Where thro' proud Ranelagh's wide-echoing vault
Melodious Frasi trills her quav'ring lay.