She revisits alone the church of her marriage

Thomas Hardy * Track #70 On Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1922

She revisits alone the church of her marriage by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

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I have come to the church and chancel,
&nbsp Where all’s the same!
- Brighter and larger in my dreams
Truly it shaped than now, meseems,
&nbsp Is its substantial frame.
But, anyhow, I made my vow,
&nbsp Whether for praise or blame,
Here in this church and chancel
&nbsp Where all’s the same.

Where touched the check-floored chancel
&nbsp My knees and his?
The step looks shyly at the sun,
And says, “’Twas here the thing was done,
&nbsp For bale or else for bliss!”
Of all those there I least was ware
&nbsp Would it be that or this
When touched the check-floored chancel
&nbsp My knees and his!

Here in this fateful chancel
&nbsp Where all’s the same,
I thought the culminant crest of life
Was reached when I went forth the wife
&nbsp I was not when I came.
Each commonplace one of my race,
&nbsp Some say, has such an aim -
To go from a fateful chancel
&nbsp As not the same.

Here, through this hoary chancel
&nbsp Where all’s the same,
A thrill, a gaiety even, ranged
That morning when it seemed I changed
&nbsp My nature with my name.
Though now not fair, though gray my hair,
&nbsp He loved me, past proclaim,
Here in this hoary chancel,
&nbsp Where all’s the same.

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