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...one longing lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies ; Some pious drops the closing eye requires : Ev'n from the tomb the...cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who mindful of the unhonour'd dead Dost in these lines their artless tale relate, If chance,...

...cast one longing, lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious hand the closing eye requires ; Ev'n from the tomb the...cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonor'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate, If chance,...

...one longing, ling'ring look behind } On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Ev'n from the tomb the voice...cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of the unhonour'd Dead, Dost in these lines tteir artless tale relate, If chance,...

...is quoting from Gray's "Elegy" on those obscure lives who even in death do not want to be forgotten: "Ev'n from the tomb the voice of nature cries, / Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires." "Double Birthday" more than any other story in this group of seven would fit with the tone of the Nebraska...

...life, which survives, perhaps only in epitaphs and in "trembling hope," but which is assuredly there: "Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, / Ev'n in our Ashes live their wonted Fires." The animals, the muttering poet, the lisping children, and the "still small Accents whisp'ring from...

...behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; 90 Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee who, mindful of th' unhonoured dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance,...

...cast one longing ling'ring look behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Ev'n from the tomb the voice...cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. (85-92) The passage speaks equally to and of those who both pass away and are left behind. The gravestones'...

...cast one longing lingering look behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Ev'n from the tomb the voice...cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. Swift, Pope's Odyssey, Milton's Belial, Lucretius, Ovid, and Petrarch are all among Gray's precursors...