# Quote — Thomas Hardy, Wessex Poems and Other Verses

> I look into my glass,
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> And viewing wasting skin,
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> And say, ‘Would God it came to pass
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> My heart had shrunk as thin!’For then, I, undistrest
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> By hearts grown cold to me,
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> Could lonely wait my endless rest
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> With equanimity.But Time, to make me grieve,
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> Part steals, lets part abide;
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> And shakes this fragile frame at eve
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> With throbbings of noontide.

- Author: [Thomas Hardy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy.md)
- Book: [Wessex Poems and Other Verses](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/wessex-poems-and-other-verses.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Hardy#Wessex_Poems_and_Other_Verses_(1898)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/wessex-poems-and-other-verses/i-look-into

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> All the vast various moils that mean a world alive.

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> Yet saw he something in the lives
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> Of those who'd ceased to live
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> That rounded them with majesty
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> Which living failed to give.

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> For incensed love breathes quick and dies,
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> When famished love a-lingering lies.

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