Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern British Poetry. 1920.
Thomas Hardy18401928In Time of The Breaking of Nations
O
In a slow silent walk,
With an old horse that stumbles and nods
Half asleep as they stalk.
From the heaps of couch grass:
Yet this will go onward the same
Though Dynasties pass.
Come whispering by;
War’s annals will fade into night
Ere their story die.