A Two-years’ Idyll

Thomas Hardy * Track #61 On Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1922

A Two-years’ Idyll by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

A Two-years’ Idyll Annotated

&nbsp       &nbsp Yes; such it was;
&nbsp Just those two seasons unsought,
Sweeping like summertide wind on our ways;
&nbsp       &nbsp Moving, as straws,
&nbsp Hearts quick as ours in those days;
Going like wind, too, and rated as nought
&nbsp Save as the prelude to plays
&nbsp Soon to come - larger, life-fraught:
&nbsp       &nbsp Yes; such it was.

&nbsp       &nbsp “Nought” it was called,
&nbsp Even by ourselves - that which springs
Out of the years for all flesh, first or last,
&nbsp       &nbsp Commonplace, scrawled
&nbsp Dully on days that go past.
Yet, all the while, it upbore us like wings
&nbsp Even in hours overcast:
&nbsp Aye, though this best thing of things,
&nbsp       &nbsp “Nought” it was called!

&nbsp       &nbsp What seems it now?
&nbsp Lost: such beginning was all;
Nothing came after: romance straight forsook
&nbsp       &nbsp Quickly somehow
&nbsp Life when we sped from our nook,
Primed for new scenes with designs smart and tall . . .
&nbsp - A preface without any book,
&nbsp A trumpet uplipped, but no call;
&nbsp       &nbsp That seems it now.

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