Drummer Hodge
Thomas Hardy
1840 to 1928
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They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest
Uncoffined -- as found:
His landmark is a kopje-crest
That breaks veldt around:
And foreign constellations west
Each night above mound.
Young Hodge the drummer never knew --
Fresh his Wessex home --
The meaning of the broad Karoo,
The Bush, the dusty loam,
And why uprose to view
Strange stars amid the gloam.
Yet portion of unknown plain
Will Hodge for ever be;
His homely breast and brain
Grow to some Southern tree,
And strange-eyed constellations reign
His stars eternally.
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