It asks if "storied urn or animated bust" can "back to its mansion call the fleeting breath," and imagines the fate of "some village Hampden," "mute inglorious Milton," or "Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.
It asks if "storied urn or animated bust" can "back to its mansion call the fleeting breath," and imagines the fate of "some village Hampden," "mute inglorious Milton," or "Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood." Its three- stanza epitaph announces that "Fair Science frowned not" on the humble birth of the one whom Melancholy marked for her own, a youth who was to fortune and to fame unknown. FTP, identify this poem, which begins "The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day," the most famous graveyard poem in the language and the masterpiece of Thomas Gray.
It asks if "storied urn or animated bust" can "back to its mansion call the fleeting breath," and imagines the fate of "some village Hampden," "mute inglorious Milton," or "Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.
{Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard}