Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO SINCERITY, by THOMAS HARDY


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First Line: O sweet sincerity!
Last Line: And life its disesteeming.
Subject(s): Sincerity


O SWEET sincerity! -
Where modern methods be
What scope for thine and thee?

Life may be sad past saying,
Its greens for ever graying,
Its faiths to dust decaying;

And youth may have foreknown it,
And riper seasons shown it,
But custom cries: 'Disown it:

'Say ye rejoice, though grieving,
Believe, while unbelieving,
Behold, without perceiving!'

- Yet, would men look at true things,
And unilluded view things,
And count to bear undue things,

The real might mend the seeming,
Facts better their foredeeming,
And Life its disesteeming.





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