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<name>Thomas <index>Hardy</index></name>

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<title>At a Lunar Eclipse</title>

<source>Text provided by Mark Richardson.</source>

<remark>Richardson says no one can beat Hardy <quote>at good, solid, post-Schopenhaurian naturalism</quote>.</remark>

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<line>Thy shadow, Earth, from Pole to Central <rhyme on="a">Sea</rhyme>,</line>

<line>Now steals along upon the Moon's meek <rhyme on="b">shine</rhyme></line>

<line>In even monochrome and curving <rhyme on="b">line</rhyme></line>

<line>Of imperturbable <rhyme on="a">serenity</rhyme>.</line>

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<line>How shall I link such sun-cast <rhyme on="a">symmetry</rhyme></line>

<line>With the torn troubled form I know as <rhyme on="b">thine</rhyme>,</line>

<line>That profile, placid as a brow <rhyme on="b">divine</rhyme>,</line>

<line>With continents of moil and <rhyme on="a">misery</rhyme>?</line>

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<line>And can immense Mortality but <rhyme on="c">throw</rhyme></line>

<line>So small a shade, and Heaven's high human <rhyme on="d">scheme</rhyme></line>

<line>Be hemmed within the coasts yon arc <rhyme on="e">implies</rhyme>?</line>

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<line>Is such the stellar gauge of earthly <rhyme on="c">show</rhyme>,</line>

<line>Nation at war with nation, brains that <rhyme on="d">teem</rhyme>,</line>

<line>Heroes, and women fairer than the <rhyme on="e">skies</rhyme>?</line>

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