" The speaker of this poem muses about "hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.
To the speaker of this poem and "to darkness" is left the world by a ploughman who "homeward plods his weary way." The speaker of this poem muses about "hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, or waked to ecstasy the living lyre." The denizens of the title location of this poem were "forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne," meaning one of them may be "some (*) Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood." This poem concerns those who lived "far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife," and it begins as "the curfew tolls the knell of parting day." For 10 points, name this poem by Thomas Gray.
To the speaker of this poem and "to darkness" is left the world by a ploughman who "homeward plods his weary way.
“{Elegy Written} in a {Country Churchyard}”