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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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Full many a lark, high-tow'ring to the sky,
Unheard, unheeded greets th' approach of light;
Full many a star, unseen by mortal eye,
With twink'ling lustre glimmers thro' the night.