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Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern British Poetry. 1920.

Thomas Hardy1840–1928

In Time of “The Breaking of Nations”

ONLY a man harrowing clods

In a slow silent walk,

With an old horse that stumbles and nods

Half asleep as they stalk.

Only thin smoke without flame

From the heaps of couch grass:

Yet this will go onward the same

Though Dynasties pass.

Yonder a maid and her wight

Come whispering by;

War’s annals will fade into night

Ere their story die.