 | Collected poems of Thomas Hardy |  |
A PLACID MAN'S EPITAPH
As for my life, I've led itWith fair content and credit:
It said: “Take this.” I took it.
Said: “Leave.” And I forsook it.
If I had done without it
None would have cared about it,
Or said: “One has refused it
Who might have meetly used it.”
1925.
| Collected poems of Thomas Hardy | |