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Late Lyrics and Earlier : with Many Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
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Playing out "Life's a Bumper!" there to me.

1913.



"I WORKED NO WILE TO MEET YOU"
(SONG)



I worked no wile to meet you,
My sight was set elsewhere,
I sheered about to shun you,
And lent your life no care.
I was unprimed to greet you
At such a date and place,
Constraint alone had won you
Vision of my strange face!

You did not seek to see me
Then or at all, you said,
--Meant passing when you neared me,
But stumblingblocks forbade.
You even had thought to flee me,
By other mindings moved;
No influent star endeared me,
Unknown, unrecked, unproved!

What, then, was there to tell us
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