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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. Thus do I this heyday, holding Shadows but as lights unfolding, As no specious show this moment With its iridized embowment; But as nothing other than Part of a benignant plan; Proof that earth was made for man.
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. Thus do I this heyday, holding Shadows but as lights unfolding, As no specious show this moment With its iridized embowment; But as nothing other than Part of a benignant plan; Proof that earth was made for man.
In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- Thomas Hardy (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1921 AD · modern
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