'THOMAS GRAY
POET
WAS BORN IN A HOUSE
ON THIS SITE
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"THE CURFEW TOLLS THE KNELL
OF PARTING DAY"
This is a very distinctive plaque in Cornhill, and the quoting of the first line from the poem 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard', perhaps the world's most famous iambic pentameter, was probably inevitable.
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