And leaves the world to darkness and to me.—Gray: Elegy.
And left the world to wretchedness and me.—Moss: Beggar’s Petition.
The swallow oft beneath my thatch
Shall twitter from her clay-built nest, &c.—The Wish.
Doubtless suggested to Rogers by the lines in Gray’s Elegy:—
The breezy call of incense-breathing morn,
The swallow twittering from her straw-built shed, &c.