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The Darkling Thrush
1900 poem by Thomas Hardy
"The Darkling Thrush" is a poem by Thomas Hardy. Originally titled "By the Century's Deathbed", it was first published on 29 December 1900 in The Graphic.[1] The poem was later published in London Times on 1 January, 1901.[2] A deleted '1899' on the poem's manuscript suggests that it may have been written in that year.[3] It was later included in a collection entitled Poems of the Past and the Present (1901).