The speaker continues on a hopeful note as the title creature casts forth its voice "in a full-hearted evensong of joy illimited".
The poet's fondness for archaic diction is reflected in the title, containing an obscure word usually used as an adverb. The poem begins as the narrator "leant upon a coppice gate when Frost was spectre-gray" when "the ancient pulse of germ and birth was shrunken hard and dry." Although he had published it earlier, the poet later affixed the date "December 31, 1900" to this work, reflecting the sun setting on an earlier century. The speaker continues on a hopeful note as the title creature casts forth its voice "in a full-hearted evensong of joy illimited". For ten points, name this poem of Thomas Hardy.
The poet's fondness for archaic diction is reflected in the title, containing an obscure word usually used as an adverb.
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