...mazy progress take: The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich stream of music winds along, Deep, majestic,...The rocks and nodding groves rebellow to the roar. (PTG 161-63) The 'mazy progress' of Gray's imagery and rhythm leads to an oddly onomatopoeic effect...

...'mainstream' - is for Gray both a concept and poetic embodiment, a stream to be seen and heard at once: 'Now rolling down the steep amain, / Headlong, impetuous,...The rocks and nodding groves rebellow to the roar' (lines 10-12). His vision of the great force of poetry (the poem was originally called 'The Power of...