Transcribed from the 1919 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org MOMENTS OF VISION AND MISCELLANEOUS VERSES * * * * * BY THOMAS HARDY * * * * * MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON 1929 * * * * * COPYRIGHT _First Edition_ 1917 _Reprinted_ 1919 _Pocket Edition_ 1919 _Reprinted_ 1923, 1925, 1929 _Wessex Edition_ 1919 * * * * * PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, EDINBURGH CONTENTS PAGE Moments of Vision 1 The Voice of Things 2 “Why be at pains?” 3 “We sat at the window” 4 Afternoon Service at Mellstock 5 At the Wicket-gate 6 In a Museum 7 Apostrophe to an Old Psalm Tune 8 At the Word “Farewell” 11 First Sight of Her and After 13 The Rival 14 Heredity 15 “You were the sort that men forget” 16 She, I, and They 17 Near Lanivet, 1872 18 Joys of Memory 20 To the Moon 21 Copying Architecture in an Old Minster 22 To Shakespeare 24 Quid hic agis? 27 On a Midsummer Eve 30 Timing Her 31 Before Knowledge 34 The Blinded Bird 35 “The wind blew words” 36 The Faded Face 37