Explore ""Men who March Away". (Song of the Soldiers)" by Thomas Hardy on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
WHAT of the faith and fire within us / Men who march away / Ere the barn-cocks say / Night is growing gray, / Leaving all that here can win us; / What of the faith and fire within us / Men who march away?
Is it a purblind prank, O think you, / Friend with the musing eye, / Who watch us stepping by / With doubt and dolorous sigh? / Can much pondering so hoodwink you! / Is it a purblind prank, O think you, / Friend with the musing eye?