...— Their lot forbade ; nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined j Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And...ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride, With incense kindled at the Muse's flame Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes...

...heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride, With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learned...stray, Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...

...And he was quite right ; for he was one of those of whom the poet wrote — " Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned...stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way!" But to proceed with my tale — one day, when they were all...

...listening senates to command, The threat of pain and ruin to despise, Their lot forbade : nor circumsciibed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined...ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride, With incense kindled at the muse's flame. Far from the maddening crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober...

...o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined...ingenuous shame ; Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride, With incense kindled at die muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, (Their sober...

...confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; 18. The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To...ingenuous shame ; Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the muse's flame. 19. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober...

...dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood ; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. The...ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride, With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. 299 Far from the madding...

...grave." He characterizes the dead who rest in this quiet place as people who, Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned...stray; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.3 In the same spirit of moral teaching as the medieval tomb sculptures,...

...retirement of the villagers who were Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gate of mercy on mankind; The struggling pangs of conscious...ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's Flame.18 Yet retirement implies a prior engagement: which entails...

...no one else could hear. Again the words of Gray's Elegy played out in her mind. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. Their sober wishes never learned...stray; Along the cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Poor Alvin. When I'm done with you, there'll be no cool sequestered...