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Quotes from Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres — Thomas Hardy

1840–1928 England

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Since as a child I used to lie
Upon the leaze and watch the sky,
Never, I own, expected I
That life would all be fair.

Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres (1928)

'Peace upon earth!' was said. We sing it
And pay a million priests to bring it.
After two thousand years of mass
We’ve got as far as poison-gas.

Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres (1928)

Well, World, you have kept faith with me,
Kept faith with me;
Upon the whole you have proved to be
Much as you said you were.

Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres (1928)

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