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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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‘One morn we miss'd him at the hour of pray'r
‘Beside the fire, and on his fav'rite green;
‘Another came, nor yet within the chair,
‘Nor yet at bowls, nor chapel was he seen.