Full Many a Gem of Purest Razorene

DESCRIPTION: Parody on Gray's famous "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard": "Full many a gem of purest Razorene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1983 (Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood)
KEYWORDS: derivative hair commerce
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 95, "Full many a gem of purest Razorene" (1 text)
Roud #25512
File: KSUC095B

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