Time & Brevity
Cynic’s Epitaph
From Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles (1925)
Time & Brevity
A race with the sun as he downed
I ran at evetide,
Intent who should first gain the ground
And there hide.
He beat me by some minutes then,
But I triumphed anon,
For when he’d to rise up again
I stayed on.
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MLA
Hardy, Thomas. “Cynic’s Epitaph.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/625/.
Chicago
Hardy, Thomas. “Cynic’s Epitaph.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/625/.
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