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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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Haply some friend may shake his hoary head
And say, ‘Each morn, unchill'd by frosts, he ran
‘With hose ungarter'd, o'er yon turfy bed,
‘To reach the chapel ere the psalms began.