Time & Brevity
“According to the Mighty Working”
From Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses
I
WHEN moiling seems at cease
In the vague void of night-time,
And heaven’s wide roomage stormless
Between the dusk and light-time,
And fear at last is formless,
We call the allurement Peace.
II
Peace, this hid riot, Change,
This revel of quick-cued mumming,
This never truly being,
This evermore becoming,
This spinner’s wheel onfleeing
Outside perception’s range.
1917.
Cite this poem
MLA
Hardy, Thomas. ““According to the Mighty Working”.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/866/.
Chicago
Hardy, Thomas. ““According to the Mighty Working”.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/866/.
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