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Satires of Circumstance; Lyrics and Reveries; with Miscellaneous Pieces
Satires of Circumstance Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces Author:Thomas Hardy General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1914 Original Publisher: Macmillan Subjects: Humor / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / American / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black an... more »d white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: TO MEET, OR OTHERWISE Whether to sally and see thee, girl of my dreams, Or whether to stay And see thee not! How vast the differ- ence seems Of Yea from Nay Just now. Yet this same sun will slant its beams At no far day On our two mounds, and then what will the difference weigh ! Yet I will see thee, maiden dear, and make The most I can Of what remains to us amid this brake Cimmerian Through which we grope, and from whose thorns we ache, While still we scan Round our frail faltering progress for some path or plan. TO MEET, OR OTHERWISE 17 By briefest meeting something sure is won ; It will have been : Nor God nor Daemon can undo the done, Unsight the seen, Make muted music be as unbegun, Though things terrene Groan in their bondage till oblivion supervene. So, to the one long-sweeping symphony From times remote Till now, of human tenderness, shall we Supply one note, Small and untraced, yet that will ever be Somewhere afloat Amid the spheres, as part of sick Life's antidote. THE DIFFERENCE Sinking down by the gate I discern the thin moon, And a blackbird tries over old airs in the pine, But the moon is a sorry one, sad the bird's tune, For this spot is unknown to that Heartmate of mine. Did my Heartmate but haunt here at times such as now, The song would be joyous and cheerful the moon ; But she will see n...« less