Outside the casement

Thomas Hardy * Track #99 On Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1922

Outside the casement by Thomas Hardy

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&nbsp We sat in the room
&nbsp And praised her whom
We saw in the portico-shade outside:
&nbsp She could not hear
&nbsp What was said of her,
But smiled, for its purport we did not hide.

&nbsp Then in was brought
&nbsp That message, fraught
With evil fortune for her out there,
&nbsp Whom we loved that day
&nbsp More than any could say,
And would fain have fenced from a waft of care.

&nbsp And the question pressed
&nbsp Like lead on each breast,
Should we cloak the tidings, or call her and tell?
&nbsp It was too intense
&nbsp A choice for our sense,
As we pondered and watched her we loved so well.

&nbsp Yea, spirit failed us
&nbsp At what assailed us;
How long, while seeing what soon must come,
&nbsp Should we counterfeit
&nbsp No knowledge of it,
And stay the stroke that would blanch and numb?

&nbsp And thus, before
&nbsp For evermore
Joy left her, we practised to beguile
&nbsp Her innocence when
&nbsp She now and again
Looked in, and smiled us another smile.

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