'Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife
Their sober wishes never learn’d to stray' – These lines are composed by -

• 'Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife
Their sober wishes never learn’d to stray' – These lines are composed by - Thomas Gray.

- লাইনটি Thomas Gray-এর লেখা Elegy written in the Country Churchyard নামক কবিতা থেকে নেওয়া হয়েছে।
- Iambic pentameter quatrains এ লেখা এই কবিতাটি ১৭৫১ সালে প্রকাশিত হয়।
- It exhibits the gentle melancholy that is characteristic of the English poets of the graveyard school of the 1740s and ’50s.
- A meditation on unused human potential, the conditions of country life, and mortality, An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard is one of the best-known elegies in the language.

• The Age of Sensibility এর বিখ্যাত কবি Thomas Gray is known as a Graveyard poet.

• His famous quotations:
- Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise.
- Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
- The paths of glory lead but to grave.

**** উল্লেখ্য যে, Far from the madding crowd নামে Thomas Hardy-এর একটি উপন্যাস আছে।

Source: Britannica and SparksNotes.