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"A Country Churchyard" - painted by Samuel Read - from the Exhibition of the Society of British Artists, 1856. Engraving of a painting. 'The following are the lines which the Artist has specially illustrated: [Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap,] Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep'. Lines from "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.