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...from Gray's Elegy written in a Country Church-yard, are distinguished by a happy choice of words. " For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind V The words longing and lingering express most forcibly the reluctance with which mankind quit this...

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