ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of t…

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ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (1996). Poems of Ambrose Bierce, p.41, U of Nebraska Press
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ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (1996). Poems of Ambrose Bierce, p.41, U of Nebraska Press

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