The Strange House

Thomas Hardy * Track #15 On Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1922

The Strange House by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

The Strange House Annotated

“I hear the piano playing -
&nbsp Just as a ghost might play.”
“ - O, but what are you saying?
&nbsp There’s no piano to-day;
Their old one was sold and broken;
&nbsp Years past it went amiss.”
“ - I heard it, or shouldn’t have spoken:
&nbsp       &nbsp A strange house, this!

“I catch some undertone here,
&nbsp From some one out of sight.”
“ - Impossible; we are alone here,
&nbsp And shall be through the night.”
“ - The parlour-door - what stirred it?”
&nbsp “ - No one: no soul’s in range.”
“ - But, anyhow, I heard it,
&nbsp       &nbsp And it seems strange!

“Seek my own room I cannot -
&nbsp A figure is on the stair!”
“ - What figure? Nay, I scan not
&nbsp Any one lingering there.
A bough outside is waving,
&nbsp And that’s its shade by the moon.”
“ - Well, all is strange! I am craving
&nbsp       &nbsp Strength to leave soon.”

“ - Ah, maybe you’ve some vision
&nbsp Of showings beyond our sphere;
Some sight, sense, intuition
&nbsp Of what once happened here?
The house is old; they’ve hinted
&nbsp It once held two love-thralls,
And they may have imprinted
&nbsp       &nbsp Their dreams on its walls?

“They were - I think ‘twas told me -
&nbsp Queer in their works and ways;
The teller would often hold me
&nbsp With weird tales of those days.
Some folk can not abide here,
&nbsp But we - we do not care
Who loved, laughed, wept, or died here,
&nbsp       &nbsp Knew joy, or despair.”

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