Geographical Knowledge

Thomas Hardy * Track #74 On Time’s Laughingstocks, and Other Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1909

Geographical Knowledge by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

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Where Blackmoor was, the road that led
&nbsp To Bath, she could not show,
Nor point the sky that overspread
&nbsp Towns ten miles off or so.

But that Calcutta stood this way,
&nbsp Cape Horn there figured fell,
That here was Boston, here Bombay,
&nbsp She could declare full well.

Less known to her the track athwart
&nbsp Froom Mead or Yell'ham Wood
Than how to make some Austral port
&nbsp In seas of surly mood.

She saw the glint of Guinea's shore
&nbsp Behind the plum-tree nigh,
Heard old unruly Biscay's roar
&nbsp In the weir's purl hard by . . .

"My son's a sailor, and he knows
&nbsp All seas and many lands,
And when he's home he points and shows
&nbsp Each country where it stands.

"He's now just there—by Gib's high rock -
&nbsp And when he gets, you see,
To Portsmouth here, behind the clock,
&nbsp Then he'll come back to me!"

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