Parting day

Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues

With a new colour as it gasps away,

The last still loveliest, till—'t is gone, and all is gray.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 29.

Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto ii. Stanza 88.

The grey mare is the better horse.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.

Black spirits and white, red spirits and gray,

Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may.

Thomas Middleton (1580-1627): The Witch. Act v. Sc. 2.

Under the sod and the dew,

Waiting the judgment day;

Love and tears for the Blue,

Tears and love for the Gray.

Bishop Henry C Potter (1835-1908): The Blue and the Gray.

When the gray-hooded Even,

Like a sad votarist in palmer's weed,

Rose from the hindmost wheels of Phoebus' wain.

John Milton (1608-1674): Comus. Line 188.