Thomas Hardy(1840–1928)
In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"
Only a man harrowing 0 clods 0cultivating I earth
In a slow silent walk
With an old horse that stumbles and nods
Half asleep as they stalk.
Only thin smoke without flame
From the heaps of couch-grass;
Yet this will go onward the same
Though Dynasties pass.
Yonder a maid and her wight 0man
Come whispering by:
War's annals will cloud into night
Ere their story die.
1916