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Blessèd was our first age and morning-time. Then were no waies tarren, ne | Blessèd was our first age and morning-time. Then were no waies tarren, ne | ||
no cars numberen, but each followed his owne playinge-busyness to go about | no cars numberen, but each followed his owne playinge-busyness to go about | ||
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| The Consolations of Memory written by Rudyard Kipling |
| First published in Poems, 1886–1929 as part of The Muse Among the Motors. | Link to further information |
Blessèd was our first age and morning-time. Then were no waies tarren, ne no cars numberen, but each followed his owne playinge-busyness to go about singly or by large interspaces, for to leden his viage after his luste and layen under clene hedge. Jangling there was not, nor the overtaking wheele, and all those now cruel clarions were full-hushed and full-still. Then nobile horses, lest they should make the chariots moveable to run by cause of this new feare, we did not press, and were apayed by sweete thankes of him that drave. There was not cursings ne adventure of death blinded bankes betweene, but good-fellowship of yoke-mates at ignorance equal, and a one pillar of dust covered all exodus.... But, see now how the blacke road hath strippen herself of hearte and beauty where the dumbe lampe of Tartarus winketh red, etc.