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Satires of Circumstance�察�Lyrics and Reveries�察�with
Miscellaneous Pieces



by Thomas Hardy




Contents��

Lyrics and Reveries
   In Front of the Landscape
   Channel Firing
   The Convergence of the Twain
   The Ghost of the Past
   After the Visit
   To Meet�察�or Otherwise
   The Difference
   The Sun on the Bookcase
   ;When I set out for Lyonnesse;
   A Thunderstorm in Town
   The Torn Letter
   Beyond the Last Lamp
   The Face at the Casement
   Lost Love
   ;My spirit will not haunt the mound;
   ;Wessex Heights
   In Death divided
   The Place on the Map
   Where the Picnic was
   The Schreckhorn
   A Singer asleep
   A Plaint to Man
   God's Funeral
   Spectres that grieve
   ;Ah�察�are you digging on my grave�拭�
Satires of Circumstance
   At Tea
   In Church
   By her Aunt's Grave
   In the Room of the Bride´elect
   At the Watering´place
   In the Cemetery
   Outside the Window
   In the Study
   At the Altar´rail
   In the Nuptial Chamber
   In the Restaurant
   At the Draper's
   On the Death´bed
   Over the Coffin
   In the Moonlight
   Self´unconscious
   The Discovery
   Tolerance
   Before and after Summer
   At Day´close in November
   The Year's Awakening
   Under the Waterfall
   The Spell of the Rose
   St。 Launce's revisited
Poems of 1912´13´
   The Going
   Your Last Drive
   The Walk
   Rain on a Grace
   ;I found her out there;
   Without Ceremony
   Lament
   The Haunter
   The Voice
   His Visitor
   A Circular
   A Dream or No
   After a Journey
   A Death´ray recalled
   Beeny Cliff
   At Castle Boterel
   Places
   The Phantom Horsewoman
Miscellaneous Pieces
   The Wistful Lady
   The Woman in the Rye
   The Cheval´Glass
   The Re´enactment
   Her Secret
   ;She charged  me;
   The Newcomer's Wife
   A Conversation at Dawn
   A King's Soliloquy
   The Coronation
   Aquae Sulis
   Seventy´four and Twenty
   The Elopement
   ;I rose up as my custom is;
   A Week
   Had you wept
   Bereft�察�she thinks she dreams
   In the British Museum
   In the Servants' Quarters
   The Obliterate Tomb
   ;Regret not me;
   The Recalcitrants
   Starlings on the Roof
   The Moon looks in
   The Sweet Hussy
   The Telegram
   The Moth´signal
   Seen by the Waits
   The Two Soldiers
   The Death of Regret
   In the Days of Crinoline
   The Roman Gravemounds
   The Workbox
   The Sacrilege
   The Abbey Mason
   The Jubilee of a Magazine
   The Satin Shoes
   Exeunt Omnes
   A Poet
Postscript
   ;Men who march away;



IN FRONT OF THE LANDSCAPE



Plunging and labouring on in a tide of visions��
   Dolorous and dear��
Forward I pushed my way as amid waste waters
   Stretching around��
Through whose eddies there glimmered the customed landscape
   Yonder and near��

Blotted to feeble mist。  And the coomb and the upland
   Foliage´crowned��
Ancient chalk´pit�察�milestone�察�rills in the grass´flat
   Stroked by the light��
Seemed but a ghost´like gauze�察�and no substantial
   Meadow or mound。

What were the infinite spectacles bulking foremost
   Under my sight��
Hindering me to discern my paced advancement
   Lengthening to miles��
What were the re´creations killing the daytime
   As by the night��

O they were speechful faces�察�gazing insistent��
   Some as with smiles��
Some as with slow´born tears that brinily trundled
   Over the wrecked
Cheeks that were fair in their flush´time�察�ash now with anguish��
   Harrowed by wiles。

Yes�察�I could see them�察�feel them�察�hear them�察�address them ´
   Halo´bedecked ´
And�察�alas�察�onwards�察�shaken by fierce unreason��
   Rigid in hate��
Smitten by years´long wryness born of misprision��
   Dreaded�察�suspect。

Then there would breast me shining sights�察�sweet seasons
   Further in date��
Instruments of strings with the tenderest passion
   Vibrant�察�beside
Lamps long extinguished�察�robes�察�cheeks�察�eyes with the earth's crust
   Now corporate。

Also there rose a headland of hoary aspect
   Gnawed by the tide��
Frilled by the nimb of the morning as two friends stood there
   Guilelessly glad ´
Wherefore they knew nottouched by the fringe of an ecstasy
   Scantly descried。

Later images too did the day unfurl me��
   Shadowed and sad��
Clay cadavers of those who had shared in the dramas��
   Laid now at ease��
Passions all spent�察�chiefest the one of the broad brow
   Sepulture´clad。

So did beset me scenes miscalled of the bygone��
   Over the leaze��
Past the clump�察�and down to where lay the beheld ones��
  Yea�察�as the rhyme
Sung by the sea´swell�察�so in their pleading dumbness
   Captured me these。

For�察�their lost revisiting manifestations
   In their own time
Much had I slighted�察�caring not for their purport��
   Seeing behind
Things more coveted�察�reckoned the better worth calling
   Sweet�察�sad�察�sublime。

Thus do they now show hourly before the intenser
   Stare of the mind
As they were ghosts avenging their slights by my bypast
   Body´borne eyes��
Show�察�too�察�with fuller translation than rested upon them
   As living kind。

Hence wag the tongues of the passing people�察�saying
   In their surmise��
;Ahwhose is this dull form that perambulates�察�seeing nought
   Round him that looms
Whithersoever his footsteps turn in his farings��
   Save a few tombs�拭�



CHANNEL FIRING



That night your great guns�察�unawares��
Shook all our coffins as we lay��
And broke the chancel window´squares��
We thought it was the Judgment´day

And sat upright。  While drearisome
Arose the howl of wakened hounds��
The mouse let fall the altar´crumb��
The worms drew back into the mounds��

The glebe cow drooled。  Till God called�察 �No��
It's gunnery practice out at sea
Just as before you went below��
The world is as it used to be��

;All nations striving strong to make
Red war yet redder。  Mad as hatters
They do no more for Christes sake
Than you who are helpless in such matters。

;That this is not the judgment´hour
For some of them's a blessed thing��
For if it were they'd have to scour
Hell's floor for so much threatening 。 。 。

;Ha�察�ha。  It will be warmer when
I blow the trumpet ��if indeed
I ever do�察�for you are men��
And rest eternal sorely need��。;

So down we lay again。  ;I wonder��
Will the world ever saner be�察�
Said one�察 �than when He sent us under
In our indifferent century� �

And many a skeleton shook his head。
;Instead of preaching forty year�察�
My neighbour Parson Thirdly said��
;I wish I had stuck to pipes and beer。;

Again the guns disturbed the hour��
Roaring their readiness to avenge��
As far inland as Stourton Tower��
And Camelot�察�and starlit Stonehenge。

April 1914。



THE CONVERGENCE OF THE TWAIN



��Lines on the loss of the ;Titanic;��

I

   In a solitude of the sea
   Deep from human vanity��
And the Pride of Life that planned her�察�stilly couches she。

II

   Steel chambers�察�late the pyres
   Of her salamandrine fires��
Cold currents thrid�察�and turn to rhythmic tidal lyres。

III

   Over the mirrors meant
   To glass the opulent
The sea´worm crawlsgrotesque�察�slimed�察�dumb�察�indifferent。

IV

   Jewels in joy designed
   To ravish the sensuous mind
Lie lightless�察�all their sparkles bleared and black and blind。

V

   Dim moon´eyed fishes near
   Gaze at the gilded gear
And query�此  �What does this vaingloriousness down here�拭─ � 。 。

VI

   Well�此 �while was fashioning
   This creature of cleaving wing��
The Immanent Will that stirs and urges everything

VII

   Prepared a sinister mate
   For herso gaily great ´
A Shape of Ice�察�for the time far and dissociate。

VIII

   And as the smart ship grew
   In stature�察�grace�察�and hue��
In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too。

IX

   Alien they seemed to be��
   No mortal eye could see
The intimate welding of their later history��

X

   Or sign that they were bent
   By paths coincident
On being anon twin halves of one august event��

XI

   Till the Spinner of the Years
   Said ;Now� ─ �And each one hears��
And consummation comes�察�and jars two hemispheres。



THE GHOST OF THE PAST



We two kept house�察�the Past and I��
   The Past and I��
I tended while it hovered nigh��
   Leaving me never alone。
It was a spectral housekeeping
   Where fell no jarring tone��
As strange�察�as still a housekeeping
   As ever has been known。

As daily I went up the stair
   And down the stair��
I did not mind the Bygone there ´
   The Present once to me��
Its moving meek companionship
   I wished might ever be��
There was in that companionship
   Something of ecstasy。

It dwelt with me just as it was��
   Just as it was
When first its prospects gave me pause
   In wayward wanderings��
Before the years had torn old troths
   As they tear all sweet things��
Before gaunt griefs had torn old troths
   And dulled old rapturings。

And then its form began to fade��
   Began to fade��
Its gentle echoes faintlier played
   At eves upon my ear
Than when the autumn's look embrowned
   The lonely chambers here��
The autumn's settling shades embrowned
   Nooks that it haunted near。

And so with time my vision less��
   Yea�察�less and less
Makes of that Past my housemistress��
   It dwindles in my eye��
It looms a far´off skeleton
   And not a comrade nigh��
A fitful far´off skeleton
   Dimming as days draw by。



AFTER THE VISIT
��To F。 E。 D。��



   Come again to the place
Where your presence was as a leaf that skims
Down a drouthy way whose ascent bedims
   The bloom on the farer's face。

   Come again�察�with the feet
That were light on the green as a thistledown ball��
And those mute ministrations to one and to all
   Beyond a man's saying sweet。

   Until then the faint scent
Of the bordering flowers swam unheeded away��
And I marked not the charm in the changes of day
   As the cloud´colours came and went。

   Through the dark corridors
Your walk was so soundless I did not know
Your form from a phantom's of long ago
   Said to pass on the ancient floors��

   Till you drew from the shade��
And I saw the large luminous living eyes
Regard me in fixed inquiring´wise
   As those of a soul that weighed��

   Scarce consciously��
The eternal question of what Life was��
And why w
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