Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“The Paths of Glory lead but to the Grave.”
- Date
- 1751
Meaning of “The Paths of Glory lead but to the…”
Gray compresses the elegy’s meditation on mortality into the reminder that wealth, beauty, status and public achievement do not remove the common human endpoint of death.
Where does it come from?
An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (1751 first edition), represented by Project Gutenberg #15409. The capitalization follows the represented edition; the line is poetic reflection on mortality and social distinction.