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No. 2938: Gray matter

To mark the tercentenary of Thomas Gray’s birth, you are invited to submit an ‘Elegy on a Country Churchyard’ in the metre of his famous poem. Please email entries of up to 16 lines to lucy@spectator.co.uk by midday on 2 March.
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Can an elegy be humorous, or that a contradiction in terms?
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Just submit the Gray original: churchyards haven't changed.
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This thread duplicates one in an abracadabra-accessible area.
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Does the rubric really stipulate ON rather than IN?
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Yup! It surely does.
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