In the Night She Came

Thomas Hardy * Track #27 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

In the Night She Came by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

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I told her when I left one day
That whatsoever weight of care
Might strain our love, Time's mere assault
&nbsp Would work no changes there.
And in the night she came to me,
&nbsp Toothless, and wan, and old,
With leaden concaves round her eyes,
&nbsp And wrinkles manifold.

I tremblingly exclaimed to her,
"O wherefore do you ghost me thus!
I have said that dull defacing Time
&nbsp Will bring no dreads to us."
"And is that true of YOU?" she cried
&nbsp In voice of troubled tune.
I faltered: "Well . . . I did not think
&nbsp You would test me quite so soon!"

She vanished with a curious smile,
Which told me, plainlier than by word,
That my staunch pledge could scarce beguile
&nbsp The fear she had averred.
Her doubts then wrought their shape in me,
&nbsp And when next day I paid
My due caress, we seemed to be
&nbsp Divided by some shade.

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