‘For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp sire’s return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share’.
In these lines from Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in a country churchyard’ the poet is referred to
- a ployman and the herd
- the rich people of the village
- the congregation of the church
- the politicians
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all those buried in the graveyard
