"La Cloche du couvre-feu tinte le clas du jour qui expire."
German:
A translation appeared in the _Kaleidoscope_, a weekly paper
published in Liverpool, in May, 1823. It was communicated by a
correspondent who had obtained a copy from the writer in Germany:--
"Des Dorfes Glocke schallt den Moor entlang."
I must frankly avow that I have no present object in seeking information
beyond the gratification of curiosity; but I would venture to throw out
a hint that an edition of this _Elegy_, exhibiting all the known
translations, arranged in double columns, might be made a noble monument
to the memory of Gray. The plan would involve the necessity for a folio
size, affording scope for pictorial illustration, on a scale capable of
doing justice to "the most finished poem in the English language."