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] |
 |
|
 | An Evening Contemplation in a College |  |
The Curfew tolls the hour of closing gates,
With jarring sound the porter turns the key,
Then in his dreary mansion slumb'ring waits,
And slowly, sternly quits it—tho' for me.
With jarring sound the porter turns the key,
Then in his dreary mansion slumb'ring waits,
And slowly, sternly quits it—tho' for me.
| An Evening Contemplation in a College | |