A house with a History

Thomas Hardy * Track #76 On Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1922

A house with a History by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

A house with a History Annotated

There is a house in a city street
&nbsp Some past ones made their own;
Its floors were criss-crossed by their feet,
&nbsp       &nbsp And their babblings beat
&nbsp From ceiling to white hearth-stone.

And who are peopling its parlours now?
&nbsp Who talk across its floor?
Mere freshlings are they, blank of brow,
&nbsp       &nbsp Who read not how
&nbsp Its prime had passed before

Their raw equipments, scenes, and says
&nbsp Afflicted its memoried face,
That had seen every larger phase
&nbsp       &nbsp Of human ways
&nbsp Before these filled the place.

To them that house’s tale is theirs,
&nbspNo former voices call
Aloud therein. Its aspect bears
&nbsp       &nbsp Their joys and cares
&nbsp Alone, from wall to wall.

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