In the canon
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- Form
- Form Poem
- Year
- Year 1751
- Pages
- Pages 5
At dusk in a village churchyard, a poet reads the plain graves of farm labourers and weighs the unlived possibilities in them against the proud tombs of the great.
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, the lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.
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