In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'
Thomas Hardy
1840 to 1928
Track 1
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Only a man harrowing clods
In a slow silent walk,
With an old horse that stumbles and nods
Half as they stalk.
Only thin smoke without flame
From heaps of couch grass:
Yet this will go onward same
Though Dynasties pass.
Yonder a maid and her
Come whispering by;
War's annals will fade into night
their story die.