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Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern British Poetry. 1920.

Thomas Hardy1840–1928

Going and Staying

THE MOVING sun-shapes on the spray,

The sparkles where the brook was flowing,

Pink faces, plightings, moonlit May,—

These were the things we wished would stay;

But they were going.

Seasons of blankness as of snow,

The silent bleed of a world decaying,

The moan of multitudes in woe,—

These were the things we wished would go;

But they were staying.