Dream of the City Shopwoman

Thomas Hardy * Track #41 On Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1922

Dream of the City Shopwoman by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

Dream of the City Shopwoman Annotated

’Twere sweet to have a comrade here,
Who’d vow to love this garreteer,
By city people’s snap and sneer
&nbsp       &nbsp Tried oft and hard!

We’d rove a truant cock and hen
To some snug solitary glen,
And never be seen to haunt again
&nbsp       &nbsp This teeming yard.

Within a cot of thatch and clay
We’d list the flitting pipers play,
Our lives a twine of good and gay
&nbsp       &nbsp Enwreathed discreetly;

Our blithest deeds so neighbouring wise
That doves should coo in soft surprise,
“These must belong to Paradise
&nbsp       &nbsp Who live so sweetly.”

Our clock should be the closing flowers,
Our sprinkle-bath the passing showers,
Our church the alleyed willow bowers,
&nbsp       &nbsp The truth our theme;

And infant shapes might soon abound:
Their shining heads would dot us round
Like mushroom balls on grassy ground . . .
&nbsp       &nbsp - But all is dream!

O God, that creatures framed to feel
A yearning nature’s strong appeal
Should writhe on this eternal wheel
&nbsp       &nbsp In rayless grime;

And vainly note, with wan regret,
Each star of early promise set;
Till Death relieves, and they forget
&nbsp       &nbsp Their one Life’s time!

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