"The men that worked for England They have their graves at home; * * * * And they that rule in England In stately conclave met, Alas, alas, for England, They have no graves as yet."
— G. K. Chesterton

January 1, 1970

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Elegy in a Country Churchyard, as printed in W. Kean Seymour (ed.) A Miscellany of Poetry (1919) p. 26