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Thomas Hardy - A Christmas Ghost Story
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South of the Line, inland from far Durban,
A mouldering soldier lies—your countryman.
Awry and doubled up are his gray bones,
And on the breeze his puzzled phantom moans
Nightly to clear Canopus:  "I would know
By whom and when the All-Earth-gladdening Law
Of Peace, brought in by that Man Crucified,
Was ruled to be inept, and set aside?
And what of logic or of truth appears
In tacking `Anno Domini` to the years?
Near twenty-hundred livened thus have hied,
But tarries yet the Cause for which He died."
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