“And hie him home, at evening's close,
To sweet repast and calm repose.”

—  Thomas Gray

Source: Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=oopv (1754), Line 87

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English poet, historian 1716–1771

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