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Old 12-23-2004, 12:38 AM   #1
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Default Thomas Hardy God's Funeral
Over on BCH we are discussing Herod and myth, and Chili mentioned Thomas Hardy and the Titanic.

Hardy's poem



God's Funeral

is here.

Quote:
GOD'S FUNERAL
Thomas Hardy


I
I saw a slowly-stepping train
Lined on the brows, scoop-eyed and bent and hoar
Following in files across a twilit plain
A strange and mystic form the foremost bore.

II
And by contagious throbs of thought
Or latent knowledge that within me lay
And had already stirred me, I was wrought
To consciousness of sorrow even as they........
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