Source: The Mysterious Benedict Society
“Brushing with hasty steps the dews away,
To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.”
St. 25
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
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