The sailor’s mother

Thomas Hardy * Track #98 On Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1922

The sailor’s mother by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

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&nbsp “O whence do you come,
Figure in the night-fog that chills me numb?”

“I come to you across from my house up there,
And I don’t mind the brine-mist clinging to me
&nbsp That blows from the quay,
For I heard him in my chamber, and thought you unaware.”

&nbsp “But what did you hear,
That brought you blindly knocking in this middle-watch so drear?”

“My sailor son’s voice as ’twere calling at your door,
And I don’t mind my bare feet clammy on the stones,
&nbsp And the blight to my bones,
For he only knows of this house I lived in before.”

&nbsp “Nobody’s nigh,
Woman like a skeleton, with socket-sunk eye.”

“Ah - nobody’s nigh! And my life is drearisome,
And this is the old home we loved in many a day
&nbsp Before he went away;
And the salt fog mops me. And nobody’s come!”

From “To Please his Wife.”

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