Late Lyrics and Earlier : with Many Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
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Such magic-minted conjurings:
The brought breeze fainted soon, And then the sense of seamews' wings, And the shore's sibilant tune. So, it had been more due, My friend, Perhaps, had you not pulled this flower From the craggy nook it knew, And set it in an alien bower; But left it where it grew! "COULD I BUT WILL" (SONG: Verses 1, 3, key major; verse 2, key minor) Could I but will, Will to my bent, I'd have afar ones near me still, And music of rare ravishment, In strains that move the toes and heels! And when the sweethearts sat for rest The unbetrothed should foot with zest Ecstatic reels. Could I be head, Head-god, "Come, now, |
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