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