The Ballet

Thomas Hardy * Track #83 On Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses

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Album Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1917

The Ballet by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

The Ballet Annotated

They crush together—a rustling heap of flesh -
Of more than flesh, a heap of souls; and then
They part, enmesh,
And crush together again,
Like the pink petals of a too sanguine rose
Frightened shut just when it blows.

Though all alike in their tinsel livery,
And indistinguishable at a sweeping glance,
They muster, maybe,
As lives wide in irrelevance;
A world of her own has each one underneath,
Detached as a sword from its sheath.

Daughters, wives, mistresses; honest or false, sold, bought;
Hearts of all sizes; gay, fond, gushing, or penned,
Various in thought
Of lover, rival, friend;
Links in a one-pulsed chain, all showing one smile,
Yet severed so many a mile!

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