He Follows Himself

Thomas Hardy * Track #78 On Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1922

He Follows Himself by Thomas Hardy

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In a heavy time I dogged myself
&nbsp Along a louring way,
Till my leading self to my following self
&nbsp Said: “Why do you hang on me
&nbsp       &nbsp So harassingly?”

“I have watched you, Heart of mine,” I cried,
&nbsp “So often going astray
And leaving me, that I have pursued,
&nbsp Feeling such truancy
&nbsp       &nbsp Ought not to be.”

He said no more, and I dogged him on
&nbsp From noon to the dun of day
By prowling paths, until anew
&nbsp He begged: “Please turn and flee! -
&nbsp       &nbsp What do you see?”

“Methinks I see a man,” said I,
&nbsp “Dimming his hours to gray.
I will not leave him while I know
&nbsp Part of myself is he
&nbsp       &nbsp Who dreams such dree!”

“I go to my old friend’s house,” he urged,
&nbsp “So do not watch me, pray!”
“Well, I will leave you in peace,” said I,
&nbsp “Though of this poignancy
&nbsp       &nbsp You should fight free:

“Your friend, O other me, is dead;
&nbsp You know not what you say.”
- “That do I! And at his green-grassed door
&nbsp By night’s bright galaxy
&nbsp       &nbsp I bend a knee.”

- The yew-plumes moved like mockers’ beards,
&nbsp Though only boughs were they,
And I seemed to go; yet still was there,
&nbsp And am, and there haunt we
&nbsp       &nbsp Thus bootlessly.

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