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The Paths of Glory lead but to the Grave.

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“The Paths of Glory lead but to the Grave.”

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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.

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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.

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