“And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.”

— Thomas Gray

St. 8 <br class="br"> Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=odec (written 1742–1750)

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