renbri
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The ninth stanza of Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard reads:
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Awaits alike th'inevitable hour.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
"Poetic licence"notwithstanding, shouldn't the verb form in the first sentence be plural, i.e. "Await" rather than "Awaits"?
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Awaits alike th'inevitable hour.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
"Poetic licence"notwithstanding, shouldn't the verb form in the first sentence be plural, i.e. "Await" rather than "Awaits"?