Late Lyrics and Earlier : with Many Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
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Under bents that quiver
There rest we. FAINTHEART IN A RAILWAY TRAIN At nine in the morning there passed a church, At ten there passed me by the sea, At twelve a town of smoke and smirch, At two a forest of oak and birch, And then, on a platform, she: A radiant stranger, who saw not me. I queried, "Get out to her do I dare?" But I kept my seat in my search for a plea, And the wheels moved on. O could it but be That I had alighted there! AT MOONRISE AND ONWARDS I thought you a fire On Heron-Plantation Hill, Dealing out mischief the most dire |
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