Intra Sepulchrum

Thomas Hardy * Track #120 On Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1922

Intra Sepulchrum by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

Intra Sepulchrum Annotated

&nbsp What curious things we said,
&nbsp What curious things we did
Up there in the world we walked till dead
&nbsp Our kith and kin amid!

&nbsp How we played at love,
&nbsp And its wildness, weakness, woe;
Yes, played thereat far more than enough
&nbsp As it turned out, I trow!

&nbsp Played at believing in gods
&nbsp And observing the ordinances,
I for your sake in impossible codes
&nbsp Right ready to acquiesce.

&nbsp Thinking our lives unique,
&nbsp Quite quainter than usual kinds,
We held that we could not abide a week
&nbsp The tether of typic minds.

&nbsp - Yet people who day by day
&nbsp Pass by and look at us
From over the wall in a casual way
&nbsp Are of this unconscious.

&nbsp And feel, if anything,
&nbsp &nbsp That none can be buried here
Removed from commonest fashioning,
&nbsp Or lending note to a bier:

&nbsp No twain who in heart-heaves proved
&nbsp Themselves at all adept,
Who more than many laughed and loved,
&nbsp Who more than many wept,

&nbsp Or were as sprites or elves
&nbsp Into blind matter hurled,
Or ever could have been to themselves
&nbsp The centre of the world.

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