“In a solitude of the sea
Deep from human vanity,
And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she.”

—  Thomas Hardy

"The Convergence of the Twain" (Lines on the loss of the Titanic) http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/916.html (1912), lines 1-3, from Satires of Circumstance (1914)

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English novelist and poet 1840–1928

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