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Poem by Thomas Hardy


Epitaph on a Pessimist


I’m Smith of Stoke, aged sixty-odd,
        I’ve lived without a dame
From youth-time on; and would to God
        My Dad had done the same.



Thomas Hardy


Thomas Hardy's other poems:
  1. An Expostulation
  2. Her Love-Birds
  3. The Collector Cleans His Picture
  4. The Aërolite
  5. The Harvest-Supper


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