Nature

IV

by Thomas Hardy 1840–1928

From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses

Nature

And then did I divine
That every heave and coil and move I made
Within my brain, and in my mood and speech,
Was in the glass portrayed
As long forestalled by their so making it;
The first of them, the primest fuglemen of my line,
Being fogged in far antiqueness past surmise and reason’s reach.

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