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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:4153
AUTHOR:Thomas Gray (1716–1771)
QUOTATION:Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade!
  Ah, fields beloved in vain!
Where once my careless childhood stray’d,
  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.
 

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