Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing)
Elegy in a Country Churchyard. Stanza 19.
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- attributed · historical anthology
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- c. 1743 AD · early modern
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- Public domain (United States)
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