Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . THB CHURCH AND CHUKCHYAKD. STOKE POGES. THE COUNTRY THE SOUTH POUCH. HE form of Gray haunts the field-paths and green lanes ofStoke Poges. His must have been a familiar figure to thevillagers in his later years, for we know that he was fondof solitary strolls; and the minute descriptions in theElegy suggest that he must often have mused in thelittle churchyard. In that poem which is of all othersthe most completely descriptive of the typical EnglishGods acre, he deliberately introduces his
Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . THB CHURCH AND CHUKCHYAKD. STOKE POGES. THE COUNTRY THE SOUTH POUCH. HE form of Gray haunts the field-paths and green lanes ofStoke Poges. His must have been a familiar figure to thevillagers in his later years, for we know that he was fondof solitary strolls; and the minute descriptions in theElegy suggest that he must often have mused in thelittle churchyard. In that poem which is of all othersthe most completely descriptive of the typical EnglishGods acre, he deliberately introduces his own personality, and speculates how, after his death, some hoary-headed swain will recall his vanished form :— There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech,That wreathes its old roof so high,His listless length at noon-tide would he stretch,And pore upon the brook that babbles by. from Stoke,he spent his Many of Grays letters to his bosom friend Mason are dated although he makes little mention of his doings; but we know that time here in solitude and study, as when he was in residence at Cambridge. Gray was doubtless not the first to whom
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