The marble-streeted town

Thomas Hardy * Track #115 On Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1922

The marble-streeted town by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

The marble-streeted town Annotated

I reach the marble-streeted town,
&nbsp Whose “Sound” outbreathes its air
&nbsp       &nbsp Of sharp sea-salts;
I see the movement up and down
&nbsp       &nbsp As when she was there.
Ships of all countries come and go,
&nbsp The bandsmen boom in the sun
&nbsp       &nbsp A throbbing waltz;
The schoolgirls laugh along the Hoe
&nbsp       &nbsp As when she was one.

I move away as the music rolls:
&nbsp The place seems not to mind
&nbsp       &nbsp That she - of old
The brightest of its native souls -
&nbsp       &nbsp Left it behind!
Over this green aforedays she
&nbsp On light treads went and came,
&nbsp       &nbsp Yea, times untold;
Yet none here knows her history -
&nbsp       &nbsp Has heard her name.

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