Penance

Thomas Hardy * Track #63 On Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1922

Penance by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

Penance Annotated

“Why do you sit, O pale thin man,
&nbsp At the end of the room
By that harpsichord, built on the quaint old plan?
&nbsp - It is cold as a tomb,
And there’s not a spark within the grate;
&nbsp And the jingling wires
&nbsp Are as vain desires
&nbsp That have lagged too late.”

“Why do I? Alas, far times ago
&nbsp A woman lyred here
In the evenfall; one who fain did so
&nbsp From year to year;
And, in loneliness bending wistfully,
&nbsp Would wake each note
&nbsp In sick sad rote,
&nbsp None to listen or see!

“I would not join. I would not stay,
&nbsp But drew away,
Though the winter fire beamed brightly . . . Aye!
&nbsp I do to-day
What I would not then; and the chill old keys,
&nbsp Like a skull’s brown teeth
&nbsp Loose in their sheath,
&nbsp Freeze my touch; yes, freeze.”

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