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Poem by Thomas Hardy


Cynic’s Epitaph


A race with the sun as he downed
I ran at evetide,
Intent who should first gain the ground
And there hide.

He beat me by some minutes then,
But I triumphed anon,
For when he’d to rise up again
I stayed on.



Thomas Hardy


Thomas Hardy's other poems:
  1. To Carrey Clavel
  2. O I Won’t Lead a Homely Life
  3. When Dead
  4. The Fight on Durnover Moor
  5. The Aërolite


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