Time & Brevity
Christmas : 1924
From Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres (1928)
Time & Brevity
“Peace upon earth!” was said. We sing it,
And pay a million priests to bring it.
After two thousand years of mass
We’ve got as far as poison-gas.
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Hardy, Thomas. “Christmas : 1924.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/757/.
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Hardy, Thomas. “Christmas : 1924.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/757/.
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