The Old Gown

Thomas Hardy * Track #19 On Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1922

The Old Gown by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

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I have seen her in gowns the brightest,
&nbsp Of azure, green, and red,
And in the simplest, whitest,
&nbsp Muslined from heel to head;
I have watched her walking, riding,
&nbsp Shade-flecked by a leafy tree,
Or in fixed thought abiding
&nbsp By the foam-fingered sea.

In woodlands I have known her,
&nbsp When boughs were mourning loud,
In the rain-reek she has shown her
&nbsp Wild-haired and watery-browed.
And once or twice she has cast me
&nbsp As she pomped along the street
Court-clad, ere quite she had passed me,
&nbsp A glance from her chariot-seat.

But in my memoried passion
&nbsp For evermore stands she
In the gown of fading fashion
&nbsp She wore that night when we,
Doomed long to part, assembled
&nbsp In the snug small room; yea, when
She sang with lips that trembled,
&nbsp “Shall I see his face again?”

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