_Passage in Gray's Elegy._--I do not remember to have seen noted the
evident Lucretian origin of the verse--
"For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn,
Nor busy housewife ply her evening care;
No children run to lisp their sire's return,
Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share."
Compare Lucretius, lib. 3. v. 907.:
"At jam non domus accipiet te laeta; neque uxor
Optima, nec dulces occurrent oscula nati
Praeripere, et tacita pectus dulcedine tangent."