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Poem by Thomas Hardy


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  (The same thought resumed)

So, Time,
Royal, sublime;
Heretofore held to be
Master and enemy,
Thief of my Love’s adornings,
Despoiling her to scornings: –
The sound philosopher
Now sets him to aver
You are nought
But a thought
Without reality.

Young, old,
Passioned, cold,
All the loved-lost thus
Are beings continuous,
In dateless dure abiding,
Over the present striding
With placid permanence
That knows not transience:
Firm in the Vast,
First, last;
Afar, yet close to us.



Thomas Hardy


Thomas Hardy's other poems:
  1. The Aërolite
  2. Genitrix Laesa
  3. V.R. 1819–1901
  4. Song from Heine
  5. The Bad Example


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