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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 shine the spires beneath the paly moon,
And thro' the cloyster Peace and Silence reign,
Save where some fidler scrapes a drowsy tune,
Or copious bowls inspire a jovial strain: