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THE LOVE-LETTERS
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Collected poems of Thomas Hardy | ||
THE LOVE-LETTERS
(IN MEMORIAM H. R.)
I met him quite by accident
In a bye-path that he'd frequent.
And, as he neared, the sunset glow
Warmed up the smile of pleasantry
Upon his too thin face, while he
Held a square packet up to me,
Of what, I did not know.
In a bye-path that he'd frequent.
And, as he neared, the sunset glow
Warmed up the smile of pleasantry
Upon his too thin face, while he
Held a square packet up to me,
Of what, I did not know.
“Well,” said he then; “they are my old letters.
Perhaps she—rather felt them fetters. . . .
You see, I am in a slow decline,
And she's broken off with me. Quite right
To send them back, and true foresight;
I'd got too fond of her! To-night
I burn them—stuff of mine!”
Perhaps she—rather felt them fetters. . . .
You see, I am in a slow decline,
And she's broken off with me. Quite right
To send them back, and true foresight;
I'd got too fond of her! To-night
I burn them—stuff of mine!”
He laughed in the sun—an ache in his laughter—
And went. I heard of his death soon after.
And went. I heard of his death soon after.
Collected poems of Thomas Hardy | ||