Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there b…

Thomas Hardy
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Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2016). Return of the Native: Works of Hardy, p.14, 谷月社
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