Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A youth to fortune and to…

Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown. Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own.

Thomas Gray

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard · 1751

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1751 Age of Enlightenment

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Thomas Gray

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Gray, Thomas. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard." Elegy Written In Country Churchyard and Other Poems. Penguin Classics, 2009.

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Gray, Thomas. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. London: Robert Dodsley, 1751.

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