Read "And there was a Great Calm" by Thomas Hardy online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
(ON THE SIGNING OF THE ARMISTICE, Nov. 11, 1918)
I. THERE had been years of Passion-scorching, cold, / And much Despair, and Anger heaving high, / Care whitely watching, Sorrows manifold, / Among the young, among the weak and old, / And the pensive Spirit of Pity whispered, "Why?"