Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses

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Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses is by Thomas Hardy, and its contents list poems titled Afternoon Service at Mellstock, At the Wicket-gate and In a Museum, among others. A poem headed We sat at the window, Bournemouth, 1875, says we sat at the window looking out, and the rain came down like silken strings That Swithin's day. A poem headed Afternoon Service at Mellstock, Circa 1850, recalls standing in a panelled pew, singing a Tate-and-Brady psalm to the tune of Cambridge New.

A poem headed The Caged Goldfinch has the speaker see, within a churchyard on a recent grave, a little cage that jailed a goldfinch. A poem headed At Madame Tussaud's in Victorian Years speaks of a first fiddler who leads the orchestra to-night and fiddled there four decades of years ago.

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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet whose fiction, set in a half-imagined Wessex, probed fate, class, and the constraints of Victorian society. His major novels are cornerstones of English literature.