| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 26725 |
| QUOTATION: | That night your great guns, unawares,
Shook all our coffins as we lay,
And broke the chancel window-squares,
We thought it was the Judgment-day |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), British novelist, poet. Channel Firing (l. 1–4). . .
The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy. James Gibson, ed. (1978) Macmillan. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Hardy Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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