...mindful of the " unhonored dead," 1941.] [Ann, when wandering through this silent grave, will find— 14 Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, " Some...nigh, " With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked " Implores the passing tribute of a sigh." Situated in full view of the Tillage, it would seem...

...2Along the cool, sequester'd vale of life', | They kept the noiseless tenor of their way,. | Yet e'en these bones, from insult to protect, | Some frail...nigh', | With uncouth rhymes, and shapeless sculpture deckW', | Implores the passing tribute of a sigh,. | Their names', their years', spell'd by theunletter'd...

...and to whom a little plain clothing, and the coarsest fare, gave full content:— ' Yet e'en their bones, from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...tribute of a sigh. ' Their name, their years, spelt by the' unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews,...

...heap the shrine 20 of Luxury and Pride, With incense kindled at the Muse's Same. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd...life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth 21 rhymes...

...and in his " Meditations among the Tombs," will be forcibly reminded of Gray's stanzas: " Yet er'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implore the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelt by the unletter'd muse, The...

...forbad: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd...vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.17 In fact, Defoe has Crusoe quote two lines of a song called "The Country Life" near the beginning...

...eighteenth-century romantic melancholy, evokes a happy rural innocence where: Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd...vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield described his refuge in similar terms: The place of our retreat...

...heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd...cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. (57-76) The reappearance of "blushes" in the later stanza (line 69) only confirms...

...trees, and among moss-covered gravestones, " the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep." " Yet c'eti these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh." Hard by stands the church. The ivy has crept quite...

...madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never leamed to stray; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. 80 Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettered...