The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow’r,And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,Awaits alike th’ inevitable hour:The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
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1 passage by Thomas Gray, from Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Thomas Gray died in 1771, so the words are in the public domain. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
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English poet and scholar (1716–1771), best known for “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (1751).
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