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In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.
Thomas Gray
Born: December 26, 1716
Died: July 30, 1771 (aged 54)
Bio: Thomas Gray was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751.
Known for:
- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751)
- The poems of Thomas Gray (1768)
- The poetical works of Thomas Gray
- English Poems
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