In which excerpt from Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush" does the speaker most directly acknowledge the forces of nature?
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"Some blessed Hope,
• where of he knew/And I was unaware."
"So little cause for
• carolings/Of such ecstatic sound."
"And all mankind that
• haunted nigh/Had sought their household fires."
"The land's sharp
O features seemed to be/The Century's corpse outleant,"