Time’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses

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Author: Thomas Hardy

The Man He Killed

"Had he and I but met
By some old ancient inn,
We should have sat us down to wet
Right many a nipperkin!

"But ranged as infantry,
And staring face to face,
I shot at him as he at me,
And killed him in his place.

"I shot him dead because -
Because he was my foe,
Just so: my foe of course he was;
That’s clear enough; although

"He thought he’d ’list, perhaps,
Off-hand like—just as I -
Was out of work—had sold his traps -
No other reason why.

"Yes; quaint and curious war is!
You shoot a fellow down
You’d treat if met where any bar is,
Or help to half-a-crown."

1902.

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Chicago: Thomas Hardy, "The Man He Killed," Time’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses, ed. Keil, Heinrich, 1822-1894 and trans. Seaton, R. C. in Time’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses (New York: George E. Wood, ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892), Original Sources, accessed April 25, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L9XKL7LHIWPVBX3.

MLA: Hardy, Thomas. "The Man He Killed." Time’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses, edited by Keil, Heinrich, 1822-1894, and translated by Seaton, R. C., in Time’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses, New York, George E. Wood, ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892, Original Sources. 25 Apr. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L9XKL7LHIWPVBX3.

Harvard: Hardy, T, 'The Man He Killed' in Time’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses, ed. and trans. . cited in ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892, Time’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses, George E. Wood, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 25 April 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L9XKL7LHIWPVBX3.