Shall we conceal the Case, or tell it - <br /> We who believe the evidence? <br /> Here and there the watch-towers knell it <br /> With a sullen significance, <br />Heard of the few who hearken intently and carry an eagerly upstrained <br />sense. <br /> <br /> Hearts that are happiest hold not by it; <br /> Better we let, then, the old view reign; <br /> Since there is peace in it, why decry it? <br /> Since there is comfort, why disdain? <br />Note not the pigment the while that the painting determines <br />humanity's joy and pain!<br /><br />Thomas Hardy<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-problem-2/
