Time & Brevity
Epitaph on a Pessimist
From Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles (1925)
Time & Brevity
I’m Smith of Stoke, aged sixty-odd,
I’ve lived without a dame
From youth-time on; and would to God
My dad had done the same.
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Codex Note
From the French.
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MLA
Hardy, Thomas. “Epitaph on a Pessimist.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/634/.
Chicago
Hardy, Thomas. “Epitaph on a Pessimist.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/634/.
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