Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern British Poetry. 1920.
Thomas Hardy18401928Going and Staying
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The sparkles where the brook was flowing,
Pink faces, plightings, moonlit May,—
These were the things we wished would stay;
But they were going.
The silent bleed of a world decaying,
The moan of multitudes in woe,—
These were the things we wished would go;
But they were staying.