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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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Some future Herring, that with dauntless breast
Rebellion's torrent shall like him oppose;
Some mute, some thoughtless Hardwicke here may rest,
Some Pelham, dreadful to his country's foes.