We are getting to the end of visioning <br />The impossible within this universe, <br />Such as that better whiles may follow worse, <br />And that our race may mend by reasoning. <br /> <br />We know that even as larks in cages sing <br />Unthoughtful of deliverance from the curse <br />That holds them lifelong in a latticed hearse, <br />We ply spasmodically our pleasuring. <br /> <br />And that when nations set them to lay waste <br />Their neighbours' heritage by foot and horse, <br />And hack their pleasant plains in festering seams, <br />They may again, - not warily, or from taste, <br />But tickled mad by some demonic force. - <br />Yes. We are getting to the end of dreams!<br /><br />Thomas Hardy<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/we-are-getting-to-the-end/
