A Gentleman’s Epitaph on Himself and a Lady

Thomas Hardy * Track #18 On Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1922

A Gentleman's Epitaph on Himself and a Lady by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

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I dwelt in the shade of a city,
&nbsp She far by the sea,
With folk perhaps good, gracious, witty;
&nbsp But never with me.

Her form on the ballroom’s smooth flooring
&nbsp I never once met,
To guide her with accents adoring
&nbsp Through Weippert’s “First Set.”

I spent my life’s seasons with pale ones
&nbsp In Vanity Fair,
And she enjoyed hers among hale ones
&nbsp In salt-smelling air.

Maybe she had eyes of deep colour,
&nbsp Maybe they were blue,
Maybe as she aged they got duller;
&nbsp That never I knew.

She may have had lips like the coral,
&nbsp But I never kissed them,
Saw pouting, nor curling in quarrel,
&nbsp Nor sought for, nor missed them.

Not a word passed of love all our lifetime,
&nbsp Between us, nor thrill;
We’d never a husband-and-wife time,
&nbsp For good or for ill.

Yet as one dust, through bleak days and vernal,
&nbsp Lie I and lies she,
This never-known lady, eternal
&nbsp Companion to me!

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