"When I set out for Lyonnesse, A hundred miles away, The rime was on the spray, And starlight lit my lonesomeness When I set out for Lyonnesse A hundred miles away."
— Thomas Hardy

January 1, 1970

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Novelists from EnglandPoets from EnglandShort story writers from EnglandPantheistsPhilosophical pessimists
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"When I Set out for Lyonnesse", ll. 1-4 — Dated (1870) in Collected Poems (1932)