The Dear

Thomas Hardy * Track #65 On Time’s Laughingstocks, and Other Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1909

The Dear by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

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I plodded to Fairmile Hill-top, where
&nbsp A maiden one fain would guard
From every hazard and every care
&nbsp Advanced on the roadside sward.

I wondered how succeeding suns
&nbsp Would shape her wayfarings,
And wished some Power might take such ones
&nbsp Under Its warding wings.

The busy breeze came up the hill
&nbsp And smartened her cheek to red,
And frizzled her hair to a haze. With a will
&nbsp "Good-morning, my Dear!" I said.

She glanced from me to the far-off gray,
&nbsp And, with proud severity,
"Good-morning to you—though I may say
&nbsp I am not YOUR Dear," quoth she:

"For I am the Dear of one not here -
&nbsp One far from his native land!" -
And she passed me by; and I did not try
&nbsp To make her understand.

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