On Stinsford Hill at Midnight

Thomas Hardy * Track #28 On Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1922

On Stinsford Hill at Midnight by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

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I glimpsed a woman’s muslined form
&nbsp Sing-songing airily
Against the moon; and still she sang,
&nbsp And took no heed of me.

Another trice, and I beheld
&nbsp What first I had not scanned,
That now and then she tapped and shook
&nbsp A timbrel in her hand.

So late the hour, so white her drape,
&nbsp So strange the look it lent
To that blank hill, I could not guess
&nbsp What phantastry it meant.

Then burst I forth: “Why such from you?
&nbsp Are you so happy now?”
Her voice swam on; nor did she show
&nbsp Thought of me anyhow.

I called again: “Come nearer; much
&nbsp That kind of note I need!”
The song kept softening, loudening on,
&nbsp In placid calm unheed.

“What home is yours now?” then I said;
&nbsp “You seem to have no care.”
But the wild wavering tune went forth
&nbsp As if I had not been there.

“This world is dark, and where you are,”
&nbsp I said, “I cannot be!”
But still the happy one sang on,
&nbsp And had no heed of me.

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