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PARODY ON AN EPITAPH by THOMAS GRAY

Poet Analysis

First Line: NOW CLEAN, NOW HIDEOUS, MELLOW NOW, NOW GRUFF
Last Line: AT BROOM, PENDRAGON, APPLEBY & BROUGH.

Now clean, now hideous, mellow now, now gruff,
She swept, she hiss'd, she ripen'd & grew rough,
At Broom, Pendragon, Appleby & Brough.




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