# Rushy Camus — Poetry character guide

> Rushy Camus in Poetry by Thomas Gray.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0000-ode-on-a-distant-prospect-of-eton-college

## Who they are

Personification of the River Cam in the odes.

## In the story

### [Ode for Music](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_23_se/chapters/ode-for-music)

Willowy Camus lingers with delight in the groves of Contemplation.

### [Hymn to Ignorance](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_23_se/chapters/hymn-to-ignorance)

Mentioned as the personification of the River Cam, whose slowly-winding flood perpetually draws a humid train of mud through the gloomy bowers.

## Links

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