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Almost any noble verse may be read, either as his elegy or eulogy, or be made the text of an oration on him.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "After the Death of John Brown" (1860), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 4, p. 451, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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a word is elegy to what it signifies.
(Robert Hass (b. 1941), U.S. poet. Meditation at Lagunitas (l. 11). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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