James Wolfe recited this poem from memory to his men at the Battle of Quebe.
James Wolfe recited this poem from memory to his men at the Battle of Quebe. The last few stanzas introduce a "hoary-headed swain," who goes missing one morning, much to the chagrin of the speaker. The swain is eventually found dead, and at the end of this poem his epitaph appears, dedicated to a "youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown." The speaker observes that "the paths of glory lead to the grave," and the poem also includes a line that inspired the title of Thomas Hardy's "Far from the Madding Crowd." "The curfew tolls the knell of the parting day" opens, for ten points, what poem, the masterpiece of Thomas Gray?
James Wolfe recited this poem from memory to his men at the Battle of Quebe.
“{Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard}”