Elegy written in a country church yard

5 p. Transcribed from the 1929 Clarendon Press type facsimile of the 1751 quarto. The Clarendon edition, of which 750 copies were made, includes variants from the manuscripts and other early editions, as well as a useful introduction and several appendices, by Francis Griffin Stokes, which are not reproduced here. The Third Edition's "Redbreast" stanza, not found in the first quarto, appears here within square bracket