...the end of the poem, before his epitaph ; but is well worthy of insertion : — " There scattcr'd, oft the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found, The redbreast comes to build and nestle there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." The house where Gray...

...stanza is,— " There ecatter'd oft the earliest of ye Year By Hands unseen are shower» of Vi'Iet» found; The Redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little Footsteps lightly print the ground." The alterations made by Gray in my MS. are "year" for tpring, "showers of" for frequent, and " Redbreast...

...the end of the poem, hefore his epitaph ; but is well worthy of insertion : — " There scutter'd, oft the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violcis found, The redbreast comes to build and nestle there, And little footsteps lightly print the...

..."Elegy," better than some of the stanzas he retained, and most people will agree •with Eogers : — "There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are show'rs of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly...

...a line with the hat pretty suppressed stanza, which may be new :o one or two of your readers : — There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By...there. And little footsteps lightly print the ground." Mason says this stanza was printed " in some of the first editions " of the Elegy. It doubtless ippeared...

...been justly awarded to one, singularly enough omitted in the finished production, — " Here scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." This last image portraying the foot-marks of the little feet which come to gather flowers on the grave...

...fidelity portrays it, is one of the most painful in our literary annals. Genius was to him * " Here scattered oft, the earliest of the year, " By hands...violets found, " The redbreast loves to build and warble here, " And little footsteps lightly print the ground." " I wonder that Gray could have the heart to...

...present, at this season, reminds one of Gray's stanza, omitted from his elegy : — " • Here icattcr'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are...violets found ; The red-breast loves to build and warble here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' As fine a stanza as any in his elegy. I wonder...

...demand preservation : " ' There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are show'rs of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' " V. 117. " How glad would lav me down, As in my mother's tap." Par. Lost, x. 777. Also Spens. F. Qu....

...of Gray's Elegy, before the Epitaph, the following exquisite lines were inserted : " There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." And about the same time Collins's "Dirge in Cymbeline" had adorned the "fair Fidele's grassy tomb"...