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Thomas Hardy

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Whence comes solace? Not from seeing,
What is doing, suffering, being;
Not from noting Life’s conditions,
Not from heeding Time’s monitions;
But in cleaving to the Dream
And in gazing at the Gleam
Whereby gray things golden seem.
--
On a Fine Morning (1899), lines 1-7, from Poems of the Past and Present (1901).

 
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