Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, 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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