Living
Gray on Himself
From Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett (1855)
Living
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune,
He had not the method of making a fortune;
Could love and could hate, so was thought something odd;
No very great wit, he believed in a God;
A post or a pension he did not desire,
But left church and state to Charles Townshend and Squire.
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Gray, Thomas. “Gray on Himself.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/gray/17/.
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