But, wading through long grass and nettles in country churchyards, they found nothing.

Several other charnel houses stood scattered about the half-acre, which, a century ago, must have been an active country churchyard, small but yet well tended.

They lived, became pregnant, and died six or seven centuries ago, and they presumably lie forgotten in English country churchyards.

Wander around any English country churchyard and you will see that here, too, child mortality was very common in the past, even at the start of the century.

Elegy written in a country churchyard (1847).

Within a week he had visited several country churchyards, taken the names of men his age from the gravestones, and applied for three duplicate birth certificates.

Astor bought both burial plots when he learned that Orwell had asked to be buried in an English country churchyard.

His alternative wish, despite his atheism, was to be buried "in some country churchyard in the south of England, where people could place wild flowers".

And yesterday Julie Godwin was buried in a rainswept corner of an English country churchyard.

But Mr. Grey, like his namesake in the country churchyard, has long loved poetry, particularly Stevens's.