“Hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed,
Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.”

— Thomas Gray

St. 12
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)

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English poet, historian 1716–1771

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