Thomas Hardy Poems

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71.
The Dead Drummer

I

They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest
   Uncoffined--just as found:
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72.
The Dream-Follower

A dream of mine flew over the mead
   To the halls where my old Love reigns;
And it drew me on to follow its lead:
   And I stood at her window-panes;
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73.
His Immortality

I

   I saw a dead man's finer part
Shining within each faithful heart
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74.
Domicilium

It faces west, and round the back and sides
High beeches, bending, hang a veil of boughs,
And sweep against the roof. Wild honeysucks
Climb on the walls, and seem to sprout a wish
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75.
The Farm Woman's Winter

I

If seasons all were summers,
And leaves would never fall,
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76.
A Jog-Trot Pair

Who were the twain that trod this track
So many times together
Hither and back,
In spells of certain and uncertain weather?
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77.
At The Railway Station, Upways

'There is not much that I can do,
For I've no money that's quite my own!'
Spoke up the pitying child--
A little boy with a violin
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78.
Epitaph On A Pessimist

I'm Smith of Stoke aged sixty odd
I've lived without a dame all my life
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79.
Her Initals

UPON a poet's page I wrote
Of old two letters of her name;
Part seemed she of the effulgent thought
Whence that high singer's rapture came.
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80.
Men Who March Away

Song of the Soldiers

What of the faith and fire within us
Men who march away
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