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��THOMAS HARDY

819 She, to Him

)ERHAPS, long hence, when I have pass'd away, Some other's feature, accent, thought like mine, Will carry you back to what I used to say, And bring some memory of your love's decline. Then you may pause awhile and think, Toor jade!' And yield a sigh to me as ample due, Not as the tittle of a debt unpaid To one who could resign her all to you

And thus reflecting, you will never sec

That your thin thought, in two small words convey'd,

Was no such fleeting phantom-thought to me,

But the Whole Life wherein my part was play'd;

And you amid its fitful masquerade

A Thought as I in yours but seem to be.

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NEED not go Through sleet and snow To where I know She waits for me, She will tarry me there Till I find it fair, And have time to spare From company.

When I've overgot The world somewhat, When things cost not

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