By Henstridge Cross at the year’s end

Thomas Hardy * Track #62 On Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1922

By Henstridge Cross at the year’s end by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

By Henstridge Cross at the year’s end Annotated

&nbsp Why go the east road now? . . .
That way a youth went on a morrow
After mirth, and he brought back sorrow
&nbsp Painted upon his brow
&nbsp Why go the east road now?

&nbsp Why go the north road now?
Torn, leaf-strewn, as if scoured by foemen,
Once edging fiefs of my forefolk yeomen,
&nbsp Fallows fat to the plough:
&nbsp Why go the north road now?

&nbsp Why go the west road now?
Thence to us came she, bosom-burning,
Welcome with joyousness returning . . .
&nbsp - She sleeps under the bough:
&nbsp Why go the west road now?

&nbsp Why go the south road now?
That way marched they some are forgetting,
Stark to the moon left, past regretting
&nbsp Loves who have falsed their vow . . .
&nbsp Why go the south road now?

&nbsp Why go any road now?
White stands the handpost for brisk on-bearers,
“Halt!” is the word for wan-cheeked farers
&nbsp Musing on Whither, and How . . .
&nbsp Why go any road now?

&nbsp “Yea: we want new feet now”
Answer the stones. “Want chit-chat, laughter:
Plenty of such to go hereafter
&nbsp By our tracks, we trow!
&nbsp We are for new feet now.

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