After the Last Breath

Thomas Hardy * Track #62 On Time’s Laughingstocks, and Other Verses

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Album Time’s Laughingstocks, and Other Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1909

After the Last Breath by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

After the Last Breath Annotated

There's no more to be done, or feared, or hoped;
None now need watch, speak low, and list, and tire;
No irksome crease outsmoothed, no pillow sloped
&nbsp Does she require.

Blankly we gaze. We are free to go or stay;
Our morrow's anxious plans have missed their aim;
Whether we leave to-night or wait till day
&nbsp Counts as the same.

The lettered vessels of medicaments
Seem asking wherefore we have set them here;
Each palliative its silly face presents
&nbsp As useless gear.

And yet we feel that something savours well;
We note a numb relief withheld before;
Our well-beloved is prisoner in the cell
&nbsp Of Time no more.

We see by littles now the deft achievement
Whereby she has escaped the Wrongers all,
In view of which our momentary bereavement
&nbsp Outshapes but small.

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