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from At A Lunar Eclipse by Thomas Hardy — automated transcript, may contain recognition errors.

Thy shadow earth, from pole to central sea, Now steals along upon the moon's meek shine An even monochrome and curving line Of imperturbable serenity. How shall I link such sun-cast symmetry With the torn troubled form I know is thine, That profile placid as a brow divine, With continence of moil and misery, And can immense mortality but throw so small a shade,

And heaven's high human scheme behem'd Within the coasts yon arc implies? Is such the stellar gauge of earthly show, Nation at war with nation, brains that teem,

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