Time & Brevity

“According to the Mighty Working”

by Thomas Hardy 1840–1928

From Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

Time & Brevity

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.

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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