 | Collected poems of Thomas Hardy |  |
“I TRAVEL AS A PHANTOM NOW”
I travel as a phantom now,
For people do not wish to see
In flesh and blood so bare a bough
As Nature makes of me.
For people do not wish to see
In flesh and blood so bare a bough
As Nature makes of me.
And thus I visit bodiless
Strange gloomy households often at odds,
And wonder if Man's consciousness
Was a mistake of God's.
Strange gloomy households often at odds,
And wonder if Man's consciousness
Was a mistake of God's.
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And next I meet you, and I pause,
And think that if mistake it were,
As some have said, O then it was
One that I well can bear!
And think that if mistake it were,
As some have said, O then it was
One that I well can bear!
1915.
| Collected poems of Thomas Hardy | |