The Fiddler

Thomas Hardy * Track #47 On Time’s Laughingstocks, and Other Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1909

The Fiddler by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

The Fiddler Annotated

The fiddler knows what's brewing
&nbsp To the lilt of his lyric wiles:
The fiddler knows what rueing
&nbsp Will come of this night's smiles!

He sees couples join them for dancing,
&nbsp And afterwards joining for life,
He sees them pay high for their prancing
&nbsp By a welter of wedded strife.

He twangs: "Music hails from the devil,
&nbsp Though vaunted to come from heaven,
For it makes people do at a revel
&nbsp What multiplies sins by seven.

"There's many a heart now mangled,
&nbsp And waiting its time to go,
Whose tendrils were first entangled
&nbsp By my sweet viol and bow!"

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