grayt.ead.0001-mss.0111 Thomas Gray Manuscripts: An Inventory at the Thomas Gray Archive. Alexander Huber Thomas Gray Archive 2006 Catalogued in EAD 2002 by Alexander Huber, Editor, Thomas Gray Archive, 2005- English grayt.ead.0001-mss.0111#did0001 mss.poems Poems [ca. 1725]-1771 poems.oopv [Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude] Now the golden Morn aloft 1775 Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 100-103 Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 201-207

Written probably in 1754 or 1755 . First printed privately in 1774. First published, in two versions, among the notes to the poems, entitled Ode, On the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude, and as Ode in Mason's Memoirs (1775), 78-81 (with Mason's additions) and 236-237 (ll. 1-48 only) respectively.

mss.0111 poems.oopv [?] [17??] [?] transcript in the hand of James Beattie 250 mm x 200 mm MS 30/44 (Copies of the poems of Thomas Gray) Historic Collections Special Libraries and Archives, King's College UABD Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 88 Ellner, June, "Re: MS 30/44, James Beattie papers". E-mail to the editor, 20 December 2006

Transcript in the hand of James Beattie , annotated in his hand "A note which I find in a Memorandum-book of Mr Gray's 1754 will best explain the intended plan of this beautiful Lyrical fragment, and will give the poetical reader how he meant to conclude it. "Contrast between the winter past and coming spring – Joy owing to that vicissitude – many who never feel that delight – Sloth - Envy - Ambition – how much happier the Rustick who feels it though he knows not how.""