The casual acquaintance

Thomas Hardy * Track #119 On Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1922

The casual acquaintance by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

The casual acquaintance Annotated

While he was here in breath and bone,
&nbsp To speak to and to see,
Would I had known - more clearly known -
&nbsp What that man did for me

When the wind scraped a minor lay,
&nbsp And the spent west from white
To gray turned tiredly, and from gray
&nbsp To broadest bands of night!

But I saw not, and he saw not
&nbsp What shining life-tides flowed
To me-ward from his casual jot
&nbsp Of service on that road.

He would have said: “’Twas nothing new;
&nbsp We all do what we can;
’Twas only what one man would do
&nbsp For any other man.”

Now that I gauge his goodliness
&nbsp He’s slipped from human eyes;
And when he passed there’s none can guess,
&nbsp Or point out where he lies.

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