Gray's Elegy

Your correspondent, "A. GRAYAN" (No. 10., p. 150.), in writing on the *Elegy in a Country Church-yard*, suggests the existence of error or obscurity in the last stanza of the epitaph; and that, if the reading, as it now stand, be faulty, "some amendment" should be suggested. At the sale of Mason's collection of Gray's books and MSS., in December, 1845, I purchased Gray's copy of Dodsley's collection (2nd edition, 1758), with corrections, names of authors, &c., in his own hand. The *Elegy* is the first poem in vol. iv. In the 2nd stanza, the beetle's "*drony* flight" is printed and corrected in…