...shivered. "The passage in Gray goes something like this: The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits, alike the inevitable hour; The paths of glory lead but to the grave. " They were silent, pondering that insight. I finally saw what I was driving at and...

...man is forgetfulness— especially to forget that: The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave. (Gray's Elegy). A final reason for boasting is presumption. Youth tends to be presumptuous....

...emptiness of creation, to discover as did Thomas Gray: "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave" Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. St. Augustine in the beginning of his life...

...of the Duke's retinue on the other. Hugh saw his father and mother in the attentive crowd. And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave Awaits alike the inevitable hour— The paths of glory lead but to the grave.'" Hugh recognized the poem, Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,"...

...disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power. And all that beauty, all that wealth, e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye Proud, impute to these the fault, If Memory o'er the tomb no trophies...

...prompting him to underscore the last, prescient line: The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Like Elizabeth Lawson before her, Katherine Lowther unwittingly caused a rift between...

...as well as their sentiment, recall Gray's Elegy: The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. (33-36) These pieces of Roman pavement represent "a buried tale" told in Time's "voice."...

...disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour: 3 The paths of glory lead but to the grave... He found a stout stick and with it, approached as near...

...The title comes from Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard." Here is the applicable stanza: The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,...alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. I include this stanza not only because it fleshes out the film's literary background...

...for what we give. EA Robinson, Captain Craig. GRAVE The boast of heraldry, the pomp ofpow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Gray, Elegy. There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest....