grayt.ead.0001-mss.0259 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.0259#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.0259 poems.oopv [untitled] [?] 1 transcript, partial Houghton b MS Lowell 20 (43), 3 The Houghton Library HARV Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 9 April 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=36727>

Transcript of the poem, partial, beginning "The common sun, the air, the skies", in the Amy Lowell Collection of Manuscripts of literary and musical figures, collected by American poet Amy Lowell.