“Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault
The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.”

—  Thomas Gray

St. 10
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)

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