On one who lived and died where he was born

Thomas Hardy * Track #94 On Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1922

On one who lived and died where he was born by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

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When a night in November
&nbsp Blew forth its bleared airs
An infant descended
&nbsp His birth-chamber stairs
&nbsp For the very first time,
&nbsp At the still, midnight chime;
All unapprehended
&nbsp His mission, his aim. -
Thus, first, one November,
An infant descended
&nbsp The stairs.

On a night in November
&nbsp Of weariful cares,
A frail aged figure
&nbsp Ascended those stairs
&nbsp For the very last time:
&nbsp All gone his life’s prime,
All vanished his vigour,
&nbsp And fine, forceful frame:
Thus, last, one November
Ascended that figure
&nbsp Upstairs.

On those nights in November -
&nbsp Apart eighty years -
The babe and the bent one
&nbsp Who traversed those stairs
&nbsp From the early first time
&nbsp To the last feeble climb -
That fresh and that spent one -
&nbsp Were even the same:
Yea, who passed in November
As infant, as bent one,
&nbsp &nbsp Those stairs.

Wise child of November!
&nbsp From birth to blanched hairs
Descending, ascending,
&nbsp Wealth-wantless, those stairs;
&nbsp Who saw quick in time
&nbsp As a vain pantomime
Life’s tending, its ending,
&nbsp The worth of its fame.
Wise child of November,
Descending, ascending
&nbsp &nbsp Those stairs!

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