| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 4153 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Gray (17161771) |
| QUOTATION: | Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood strayd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | On a Distant Prospect of Eton College. Stanza 2. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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