"Ne'er was ought yet at first contriv'd so fit"

"Ne'er was ought yet at first contriv'd so fit,"
"But use, age, or something would alter it;"
"Advise thee better, and, upon peruse,"
"Make thee not say, and what thou tak'st refuse."

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Pre-Romantic poet best known for "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," a meditation on mortality.

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