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Collected poems of Thomas Hardy

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Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)

WESSEX POEMS

POEMS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT

[TIME'S LAUGHING STOCKS AND OTHER VERSES.]

SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE LYRICS AND REVERIES

MOMENTS OF VISION

LATE LYRICS AND EARLIER

HUMAN SHOWS FAR PHANTASIES SONGS, AND TRIFLES

WINTER WORDS IN VARIOUS MOODS AND METRES

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GALLANT'S SONG

When the maiden leaves off teasing,
Then the man may leave off pleasing:
Yea, 'tis sign,
Wet or fine,
She will love him without ceasing
With a love there's no appeasing.
Is it so?
Ha-ha. Ho!

Nov. 1868.

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From an old notebook.