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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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‘Now by the fire, engag'd in serious talk
‘Or mirthful converse, would he loit'ring stand;
‘Then in the garden chose a sunny walk,
‘Or launch'd the polish'd bowl with steady hand;