In the small hours

Thomas Hardy * Track #82 On Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1922

In the small hours by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

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I lay in my bed and fiddled
&nbsp With a dreamland viol and bow,
And the tunes flew back to my fingers
&nbsp I had melodied years ago.
It was two or three in the morning
&nbsp When I fancy-fiddled so
Long reels and country-dances,
&nbsp And hornpipes swift and slow.

And soon anon came crossing
&nbsp The chamber in the gray
Figures of jigging fieldfolk -
&nbsp Saviours of corn and hay -
To the air of “Haste to the Wedding,”
&nbsp As after a wedding-day;
Yea, up and down the middle
&nbsp In windless whirls went they!

There danced the bride and bridegroom,
&nbsp And couples in a train,
Gay partners time and travail
&nbsp Had longwhiles stilled amain! . . .
It seemed a thing for weeping
&nbsp To find, at slumber’s wane
And morning’s sly increeping,
&nbsp That Now, not Then, held reign.

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