"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
Perhaps the noblest stanzas in the language. Full of quotations "paths of glory", "madding crowd", Kindred spirit" etc. He worked on it for 20 years. But...you take a pounding from 32 quatrains of perfect iambic pentameters. It's a little monotonous
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Elegy written in a country churchyard
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