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ON A FINE MORNING by THOMAS HARDY

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First Line: WHENCE COMES SOLACE? - NOT FROM SEEING
Last Line: PROOF THAT EARTH WAS MADE FOR MAN.
I

WHENCE comes Solace? - Not from seeing
What is doing, suffering, being,
Not from noting Life's conditions,
Nor from heeding Time's monitions;
But in cleaving to the Dream,
And in gazing at the gleam
Whereby gray things golden seem.

II

Thus do I this heyday, holding
Shadows but as lights unfolding,
As no specious show this moment
With its iris-hued embowment;
But as nothing other than
Part of a benignant plan;
Proof that earth was made for man.



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