{"id":30,"date":"2014-05-20T22:11:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T22:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=30"},"modified":"2014-09-26T18:55:38","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T18:55:38","slug":"thomas-hardy-1840-1928","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/chapter\/thomas-hardy-1840-1928\/","title":{"raw":"Hap","rendered":"Hap"},"content":{"raw":"[footnote]Chance, happenstance.[\/footnote]\r\n\r\nIf but some vengeful god would call to me\r\nFrom up the sky, and laugh: \"Thou suffering thing,\r\nKnow that thy sorrow is my ecstasy,\r\nThat thy love's loss is my hate's profiting!\"\r\n\r\nThen would I bear it, clench myself, and die,\r\nSteeled by the sense of ire[footnote]Anger, wrath.[\/footnote]\u00a0unmerited;\r\nHalf-eased in that a Powerfuller than I\r\nHad willed and meted[footnote]Given.[\/footnote]\u00a0me the tears I shed.\r\n\r\nBut not so.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0How arrives it joy lies slain,\r\nAnd why unblooms the best hope ever sown?\r\n\u2014Crass Casualty[footnote]Chance.[\/footnote]\u00a0obstructs the sun and rain,\r\nAnd dicing Time for gladness casts a moan. . . .\r\nThese purblind Doomsters[footnote]Partly blind and obtuse judges.[\/footnote]\u00a0had as readily strown\r\nBlisses about my pilgrimage as pain.\r\n\r\n\u2014 1898","rendered":"<p><a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Chance, happenstance.\" id=\"return-footnote-30-1\" href=\"#footnote-30-1\" aria-label=\"Footnote 1\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If but some vengeful god would call to me<br \/>\nFrom up the sky, and laugh: &#8220;Thou suffering thing,<br \/>\nKnow that thy sorrow is my ecstasy,<br \/>\nThat thy love&#8217;s loss is my hate&#8217;s profiting!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then would I bear it, clench myself, and die,<br \/>\nSteeled by the sense of ire<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Anger, wrath.\" id=\"return-footnote-30-2\" href=\"#footnote-30-2\" aria-label=\"Footnote 2\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[2]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0unmerited;<br \/>\nHalf-eased in that a Powerfuller than I<br \/>\nHad willed and meted<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Given.\" id=\"return-footnote-30-3\" href=\"#footnote-30-3\" aria-label=\"Footnote 3\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[3]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0me the tears I shed.<\/p>\n<p>But not so.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0How arrives it joy lies slain,<br \/>\nAnd why unblooms the best hope ever sown?<br \/>\n\u2014Crass Casualty<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Chance.\" id=\"return-footnote-30-4\" href=\"#footnote-30-4\" aria-label=\"Footnote 4\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[4]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0obstructs the sun and rain,<br \/>\nAnd dicing Time for gladness casts a moan. . . .<br \/>\nThese purblind Doomsters<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Partly blind and obtuse judges.\" id=\"return-footnote-30-5\" href=\"#footnote-30-5\" aria-label=\"Footnote 5\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[5]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0had as readily strown<br \/>\nBlisses about my pilgrimage as pain.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 1898<\/p>\n<hr class=\"before-footnotes clear\" \/><div class=\"footnotes\"><ol><li id=\"footnote-30-1\">Chance, happenstance. <a href=\"#return-footnote-30-1\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 1\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-30-2\">Anger, wrath. <a href=\"#return-footnote-30-2\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 2\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-30-3\">Given. <a href=\"#return-footnote-30-3\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 3\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-30-4\">Chance. <a href=\"#return-footnote-30-4\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 4\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-30-5\">Partly blind and obtuse judges. <a href=\"#return-footnote-30-5\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 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