To An Unborn Pauper Child Comments

I searched in my copy of Hardy: poems selected by David Wright- Penguin Poetry library, but it wasn't to be found. Wonder why. Of course it's quoted in The Doomsters, which I finished reading this morning.

It; s such a majestic poem, and, after reading it aloud myself- having done so many times in the past, I looked forward to hearing the resonant tones of some great or at least an impassioned orator declaim the famous lines. Until I pushed play and the alien, stuttering, inhuman utterance of a computer voice proceeded to spurt out the words. Thanks for having poems for free. Sorry you have no qualified human to read them.

This is a great poem. Note how it is used by Ross MacDonald in his The Doomsters. I encountered this poem in that novel and have revisited it with regularity.

A man may wait many generations to find success, the average child is born to spend it's days in poverty, yet life itself e en daylight simple joys must make life worth living. Thought on this peom. Daphne