Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses by Thomas Hardy
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And thereon queried by some squire's good dame
Driving in shopward) may have given thy name, With, "Yes, a worthy man and well-to-do; Though, as for me, I knew him but by just a neighbour's nod, 'tis true. "I' faith, few knew him much here, save by word, He having elsewhere led his busier life; Though to be sure he left with us his wife." --"Ah, one of the tradesmen's sons, I now recall . . . Witty, I've heard . . . We did not know him . . . Well, good-day. Death comes to all." So, like a strange bright bird we sometimes find To mingle with the barn-door brood awhile, Then vanish from their homely domicile - Into man's poesy, we wot not whence, Flew thy strange mind, Lodged there a radiant guest, and sped for ever thence. 1916. QUID HIC AGIS? I |
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