English poem
Vii
by Thomas Hardy
—Yet, voices haunting us, daunting us, taunting us, Hint in the night-time when life beats are low Other and graver things . . . Hold we to braver things, Wait we, in trust, what Time’s fulness shall show.
AT THE WAR OFFICE, LONDON (Affixing the Lists of Killed and Wounded: December, 1899)