Quote of the Day (Thomas Hardy, on a Snowy Cemetery)

“The tripletime beat

Bounds forth on the snow,

But the spry springing feet

Of a century ago,

And the arms that enlaced

As the couples embraced,

Are silent old bones

Under graying gravestones.”—English poet-novelist Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), from “Music in a Snowy Street,” in Hardy: Poems (Everyman’s Library, Pocket Poets Series, 1985)