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An Elegy Written in A Country Churchyard: Thomas Gray, 1750
An Elegy Written in A Country Churchyard: Thomas Gray, 1750
[This text attempts to reproduce the appearance of an 18th century printing of the
poem (apart from the line numbers, of course). The original spelling text and the
questions and comments that follow are from Hugh Kenner, The Art of Poetry (New
York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1961).]