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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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To fill the madding crowd's perverted mind
With “Pensions, Taxes, Marriages, and Jews;”
Or shut the gates of heav'n on lost mankind,
And wrest their darling hopes, their future views.
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