..."Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College": "Ah happy hills, ah pleasing shade, / Ah fields belov'd in vain, / Where once my careless childhood stray'd, / A stranger yet to pain!" (11-14). Now compare an example of the Ah Mock-Regretful, in "Monody on a Tea-Kettle," in which "The...

...unbridgeable except by wishful self-deception: Ah, happy hills, ah, pleasing shade, Ah, fields belov'd in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd,...fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. His momentary bliss and nostalgic...

...ah pleating fhade! Ah fields belov'd in va n ! Where once my carelefs childhood ftray'd, A ftranger yet to pain ! I feel, the gales that from ye blow, A momentary blifs beftow, As waving frefh their gladfome wing. My weary foul they feem to footh. And, redolent...

...straightforward evidence of Gray's attitude with regard to the time passed at Eton: Ah, happy hills, ah, pleasing shade, Ah, fields beloved in vain, Where once my careless childhood strayed, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the glades, that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As...

...happy hills! ah pleasing shade! Ah fields belov'd in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray 'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales, that from...fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth.' GRAY ['Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College']' On the following morning, Emily left Tholouse...

...I1747l, the poet reminisced wistfully over youth. Ah, happy hills, ah, pleasing shade, Ah, fields belov'd in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! When we stand before a prospect, our mind is free to roam. As we move mentally out to space, we also...

...without having observed a shadow of Valancourt, or of any other person. CHAPTER XLIX Ah happy hills! ah pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray W, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from you blow A momentary bliss bestow, As,...

...or of any other person. CHAPTER 49 CHAPTER 49 Ah happy hills! ah pleasing shade! Ah fields belov'd in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd,...fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth. - GRAY *** On the following morning, Emily left Tholouse at an early hour, and reached La Vallee...

...or of any other person. CHAPTER 49 CHAPTER 49 Ah happy hills! ah pleasing shade! Ah fields belov'd in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd,...fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth. - GRAY On the following morning, Emily left Tholouse at an early hour, and reached La Vallee...