The Only Use of
elegy
in
In Cold Blood
- He later did so, and Andrews' farewell message turned out to be the ninth stanza of Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard": The boasts of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
a mournful poem -- especially lamenting for someone who died