Poetry Show #2 - Thomas Hardy - Mute Opinion. Be Quiet...

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Everybody has an opinion and will willingly share it with you.

Maybe they shouldn't.

Yes, that is hypocritical.

The poem is Mute Opinion by Thomas Hardy:

I

I traversed a dominion
Whose spokesmen spake out strong
Their purpose and opinion
Through pulpit, press, and song.
I scarce had means to note there
A large-eyed few, and dumb,
Who thought not as those thought there
That stirred the heat and hum.

II

When, grown a Shade, beholding
That land in lifetime trode,
To learn if its unfolding
Fulfilled its clamoured code,
I saw, in web unbroken,
Its history outwrought
Not as the loud had spoken,
But as the mute had thought.

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[thetomatowoman]

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[hume12345]

"Say not always what you know, but always know what you say".

claudius

[fiendlybrds]

thankyou for the realization.

[shadow403]

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[cestlouise]

dear poet,

well done! your British accent is very lovely - those of us who have had a time in life -

perhaps because of neurodegenerative illness - come to the point when we can no longer speak, wish that when we did we had said something more kind & more eloquent...

sincerely,

louise