And pay a million priests to bring it. After two thousand years of mass We've got as far as poison-gas.
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This bears his missives of life and deathWith quickening breath,
On whom the rain comes down.
Thomas Hardy
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Thomas Hardy
That mirror
Can test each mortal when unaware;
Yea, that strange mirror
May catch his last thoughts, whole life foul or fair,
Glassing it -- where?
Thomas Hardy
. . . that shabby corner of God's allotment where He lets the nettles grow, and where all unbaptized infants, notorious drunkards, suicides, and others of the conjecturally damned are laid.
Thomas Hardy
Unto this wood I came As to a nest Dreaming that sylvan peace Offered the harrowed ease- Nature a soft release From men's unrest
Thomas Hardy
With eye and cry of love illimited
Upon her Heart-king.
Thomas Hardy
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