Late Lyrics and Earlier : with Many Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
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That are not there?
Though the birds sing small, And apple and pear On your trees by the wall Are ripe and rare, Though none excel them, I have no care To taste them or smell them And you not there. Though the College stones Are smit with the sun, And the graduates and Dons Who held you as one Of brightest brow Still think as they did, Why haunt with them now Your candle is hid? Towards the river A pealing swells: They cost me a quiver - Those prayerful bells! How go to God, Who can reprove With so heavy a rod As your swift remove! The chorded keys |
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