Quote of the Day (Thomas Hardy, on Where the Oxen Knelt at Christmas)

 

“If someone said on Christmas Eve,
‘Come; see the oxen kneel,
 
‘In the lonely barton by yonder coomb
Our childhood used to know,’
I should go with him in the gloom,
Hoping it might be so.”—English poet-novelist Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), “The Oxen,” originally published in The Times of London (Christmas Eve, 1915)