Time & Brevity

Kingston-maurward Ewelease

by Thomas Hardy 1840–1928

From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses

Time & Brevity

“BY THE RUNIC STONE”
(Two who became a story)

BY the Runic Stone
They sat, where the grass sloped down,
And chattered, he white-hatted, she in brown,
Pink-faced, breeze-blown.

Rapt there alone
In the transport of talking so
In such a place, there was nothing to let them know
What hours had flown.

And the die thrown
By them heedlessly there, the dent
It was to cut in their encompassment,
Were, too, unknown.

It might have strown
Their zest with qualms to see,
As in a glass, Time toss their history
From zone to zone!

MLA

Hardy, Thomas. “Kingston-maurward Ewelease.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/311/.

Chicago

Hardy, Thomas. “Kingston-maurward Ewelease.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/311/.

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