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Death Quotes
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, (1)
Memory and the Past Quotes
For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn,Or busy housewife ply her evening care:No children run to lisp their sire's return,Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. (21-24)
Man and the Natural World Quotes
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,And leaves the world to darkness and to me. (3-4)
Society and Class Quotes
Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smileThe short and simple annals of the poor. (29-32)
Isolation Quotes
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,And leaves the world to darkness and to me. (3-4)