“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)
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