Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-11-12
NlkENANS WANDERINGS
At The SHRINE AND HAuNTS OF
THE POET oRAY-l.

siote PoEss, whore tho Accidents OF Ru.
raj Retirement Gave Our Tongue Its
Most Matehlcss Eicgy- william Penn.
DESCENDANTS rs Lords OF the Ancient
MAnor-syiyan Scenes with Splendid
Historic Environment.
Copyright, lsoe, by Edgar l.. wakeman.l
STOKE PoGEs, England, Oct. lO..-I once
knew little old bookworm who haunted
lheNew York libraries, and whose manner,
ways and character bore most striking
resemblance TO that poet who wrote the
most perfect clegy in the English tongue
Thomas Gray.
heWasa little, dainty man. with silyered
hAlt anu rounded paunch-his most
sinking physical characteristic II his line,
PhsNe blue eyes were not beaming upon
you His cldihing was faultless. Ills
manners were courtly. His very pensive-
ness was bcnlgnnnt and rcstful. lie seemed
me1halc an Odor Of musk and mignonette,
ana Us used to look no him for an Eight
erhlh ccn,nN remainder, the groiesaue
notion always came that his melancholy
Signs OF pleasure or disapproval ~ lac fed
upon the musty tones before him, could
Mey be given physical aspect, would CON
form 10 tho pearly lavender OF his ample
s'oes and spotless trousers.
ny anu by | missed him. His little
pauheh had gone riot and overcome his
ssonlneh with govt or something, aud
voc uAlhty aud learned little bookworm
NV turned from the tones OF the Aston
SUI Mercantile TO the endless tome OF
ew'hlty l was sure that hero was an.
Unef Gray. Yes, he had been, | found,
supported in academy, college, university
hla IN travel by tho thrift and trade OF
.Wo women, who bllndly believed that In
'lhg lie would nstonish the world with the
aS-uGt OF MS genius Like Gray, he never
'u'u pennyi his unconscious winsome-
as - conquered all; his learning was vast,
l"I MS Incidence was astounding. Ito
g speht lifetime In eNhausting tho his.
one, scientific and phllosophio researches
~ p'oduet OF others. lie left tons Of be-
1n'uRA OF great endeavors. II he had
zen forced Into country environment, as
aSurly Mt Stoke poges, ho might have
sven tho world an idyl or an clegy, and
plete N'''
me very accident Of rural retracy com.
'Nu or Induced Thomas Gray to cruate
s Income bit OF verse which gave him u place
auons tue immortnls. From l127, ut the
~ OF ten, when his mother placed him In
a s,'ou, ana where, tradition has H., lac ut
Saoe began to vcrsiiy until he expired Of
iW1e'll1 and govt In the arms OF DR.. James
L'JMh' Master OF picturesque old Penn
y yAe Hal, Cambridge, ON tho 0Oth OF
Su'y, mia period OF forty.four yenrs-hc
as continuously In an atmosphere of
J JosAa as any man who ever lived. For his
ay anu time he was the most vnriously
M pehetratingly learned man In Europe.
ne was practically mad for and from
~. DooA knowledge, Hisdcvotion to research
, S,,l. an endless intoxlcation OF acquire.
she lor tho thing or fact encompassed,
t ia'ner than that healthful acquisition OF
nn1,oW,ledge for the uses to which It may be
,,Mh no doubt also true that had he no,
nr',yl the "Elegy" his place In the bi
,,sT'lephles would have been no moro than
,i tuoi,us Gray, erudlte annotator, accom-
p,fhed translatorand sometime coinpanior
hotaee Walpole," Because his surpass
wy genius through tho blessed Incident Of