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“Alas, regardless of their doom, / The little victims play!”

— Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (written 1742–1750), St. 6

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About Thomas Gray

1716 – 1771

English poet, author of "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard".

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