Time & Brevity
The Aged Newspaper soliloquizes
From Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres (1928)
Time & Brevity
Yes; yes; I am old. In me appears
The history of a hundred years;
Empires’, kings’, captives’, births and deaths,
Strange faiths, and fleeting shibboleths.
Tragedy, comedy, throngs my page
Beyond all mummed on any stage:
Cold hearts beat hot, hot hearts beat cold,
And I beat on. Yes; yes; I am old.
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Hardy, Thomas. “The Aged Newspaper soliloquizes.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/756/.
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