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Quotation from Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
“Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his Country's Blood.”
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Stanza 15, lines 59-60 (1751 first edition)
Obscurity may have hidden a great poet, and also spared the land a great man's crimes.
Citation: "Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his Country's Blood." — Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Stanza 15, lines 59-60 (1751 first edition). (id elegy-written-in-a-country-churchyard-q5)
Portrait: Richard Bentley Elegy header, Bentley, Richard, Public domain.
