greykit.poetry — Thomas Gray/elegy-written-in-a-country-church-yard

• 1751 [thomas-gray] An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church-Yard
  An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard

  Dusk in a country churchyard, and the long reckoning of lives that were never given the chance to be famous — mute inglorious Miltons, flowers born to blush unseen — closing on the poet's own epitaph.

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