On the Way

Thomas Hardy * Track #55 On Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1922

On the Way by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

On the Way Annotated

The trees fret fitfully and twist,
&nbsp Shutters rattle and carpets heave,
&nbsp Slime is the dust of yestereve,
&nbsp       &nbsp And in the streaming mist
Fishes might seem to fin a passage if they list.

&nbsp       &nbsp But to his feet,
&nbsp       &nbsp Drawing nigh and nigher
&nbsp       &nbsp A hidden seat,
&nbsp       &nbsp The fog is sweet
&nbsp       &nbsp And the wind a lyre.

&nbsp A vacant sameness grays the sky,
&nbsp A moisture gathers on each knop
&nbsp Of the bramble, rounding to a drop,
&nbsp       &nbsp That greets the goer-by
With the cold listless lustre of a dead man’s eye.

&nbsp       &nbsp But to her sight,
&nbsp       &nbsp Drawing nigh and nigher
&nbsp        &nbsp Its deep delight,
&nbsp       &nbsp The fog is bright
&nbsp       &nbsp And the wind a lyre.

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