The pale lunar touches which make beauties of hags lent divinity to this face, already beautiful. - Thomas Hardy

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The pale lunar touches which make beauties of hags lent divinity to this face, already beautiful.

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About Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy OM (June 2 1840 – January 11 1928) was an English novelist, short story writer and poet.

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