Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern British Poetry.  1920.   Thomas Hardy. 1840–   2. Going and Staying   THE moving sun-shapes on the spray,   The sparkles where the brook was flowing,   Pink faces, plightings, moonlit May,—   These were the things we wished would stay;         But they were going.          5    Seasons of blankness as of snow,   The silent bleed of a world decaying,   The moan of multitudes in woe,—   These were the things we wished would go;         But they were staying.   10