“Each in his narrow cell forever laid,
The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.”

—  Thomas Gray

St. 4
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)

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