“When false things are brought low,
And swift things have grown slow,
Feigning like froth shall go,
Faith be for aye.”

—  Thomas Hardy

" Between Us Now, http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/between-us-now/" lines 21-24, from Poems of the Past and Present (1901)

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English novelist and poet 1840–1928

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