Thomas Hardy Quote

These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown
Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.


Hap" (1866), lines 13-14, from Wessex Poems (1898)


These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.

These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.

These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.

These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.