Too High a View of the Poor in "Elegy"

I thought this poem by Thomas Gray was beautiful.  After reading the introduction to the author I assumed it was going to be nature-based but instead it looked more at the difference between the rich and the poor.  I still thought the poem was of course well written, but I had some problems with Gray's point of view.  To me, he viewed the poor too highly in this poem.  Gray recognizes the problems with knowledge and power, that it leads to corruption.  For example in line 66 this man never had to "wade through slaughter to a throne," or line 71 "heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride."  This right here was a signal to me that Gray was a little bit bitter.  Not all kings had to obtain their throne by bloodshed and not all leaders are luxurious and prideful.  So this sweeping stereotype sets Gray up to be a bit biased toward the opposite of the politicians: the poor.
His view of the poor is obviously too rosy.  In line 74 Gray writes that the poor man's "sober wishes never learned to stray." Who's to say that the poor only have nice thoughts? Obviously even uneducated folk have unholy desires like pride that another farm is bigger than the other.  Gray seems to blame money as the root of all evil when truly evil is something in all people.  Even the poor. His positive view of the poor and his decision to see them as all good is endearing but also false.
-Molly Hakso