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Title: A Plaint To Man Author: Thomas Hardy [More Titles by Hardy] When you slowly emerged from the den of Time, Wherefore, O Man, did there come to you My virtue, power, utility, One thin as a shape on a lantern-slide "Such a forced device," you may say, "is meet Somewhere above the gloomy aisles - But since I was framed in your first despair And now that I dwindle day by day And to-morrow the whole of me disappears, The fact of life with dependence placed With loving-kindness fully blown, 1909-10. [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |