Ambrose Bierce

Elegy
n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing
any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce
in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. The
most famous English example begins somewhat like this:
 
The cur foretells the knell of parting day;
    The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea;
The wise man homewards plods; I only stay
    To fiddle-faddle in a minor key.

 

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