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The Dead Drummer by Thomas Hardy
The Dead Drummer by Thomas Hardy

The Dead Drummer

Thomas Hardy * Track #4 On Poems of the Past and the Present

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Album Poems of the Past and the Present

Poems of the Past and the Present by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

1901

The Dead Drummer by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

The Dead Drummer Annotated

I

They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest
Uncoffined—just as found:
His landmark is a kopje-crest
That breaks the veldt around;
And foreign constellations west
Each night above his mound.

II

Young Hodge the Drummer never knew -
Fresh from his Wessex home -
The meaning of the broad Karoo,
The Bush, the dusty loam,
And why uprose to nightly view
Strange stars amid the gloam.

III

Yet portion of that unknown plain
Will Hodge for ever be;
His homely Northern breast and brain
Grow up a Southern tree.
And strange-eyed constellations reign
His stars eternally.

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