A Wife in London
Thomas Hardy
1840 to 1928
Track 1
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Though shaped so shortly:
In the summer weather,
And of new love that they would learn.
December 1899
Like a waning taper
A messenger's knock cracks smartly,
Fresh—firm—penned in highest feather—
And of home-planned jaunts of brake and burn
He—he has fallen—in the far South Land…
She sits in the tawny vapour
Page-full of his hoped return,
A letter is brought whose lines disclose
Behind whose webby fold-on-fold
His hand, whom the worm now knows:
By the firelight flicker
Of meaning it dazes to understand
The postman nears and goes:
Flashed news in her hand
The street-lamp glimmers cold.
That the Thames-side lanes have uprolled,
'Tis the morrow; the fog hangs thicker,
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