The Darkling Thrush (early version, "By the Century’s Deathbed")

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"The Darkling Thrush" (early version, "By the Century’s Deathbed") is an earlier, more explicitly fin-de-siècle draft of Thomas Hardy’s famous poem, reflecting his bleak view of the dying nineteenth century before he revised it into its better-known form.

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Wessex Poems and Other Verses hasNotablePoem The Darkling Thrush (early version, "By the Century’s Deathbed")