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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