on 8/11/01 10:41 PM, Joseph Duemer at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> For my money Thos. Hardy is the British equal of Melville, especially Tess &
> The Mayor of Casterbridge. No gossip there. The poems are also a whole
> education in the relations between thought & feeling, which is my particular
> obsession these days.
. . . .
Who hath charity? This bird.
Who suffereth long and is kind,
Is not provoked, though blind
And alive ensepulchred?
Who hopeth, endureth all things?
Who thinketh no evil, but sings?
Who is divine? This bird.
(Thomas Hardy, "The Blinded Bird")
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