Mossy headstones lean among fallen leaves beneath the immense, outstretched arms of an ancient yew at Stoke Poges churchyard in Buckinghamshire — the very scene that inspired Thomas Gray to write one of the most quoted poems in the English language, and the card itself reproduces four of those immortal lines along its lower edge: "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, / And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, / Await alike th' inevitable hour: / The paths of glory lead but to the grave." Published as a Real Photograph by Walter Scott of Bradford, this sepia RPPC captures the lychgate, the church porch, and the brooding churchyard with the quiet melancholy that has drawn literary pilgrims here since the eighteenth century. The card carries catalog number LL 591 and a penciled dealer price of 3/- on the reverse. Clean, bright, and unposted, it is a collector's piece for lovers of English Romantic literature, Georgian poetry, and atmospheric ecclesiastical photography.