Wagtail and Baby

Thomas Hardy * Track #78 On Time’s Laughingstocks, and Other Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1909

Wagtail and Baby by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

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In ‘Wagtail and Baby’ Hardy criticises the disruption caused by humans to the natural world. The poem shows nature in harmony with itself until the arrival of the ironically ‘perfect gentleman’ causes the wagtail to rise fly away in ‘terror’.

Hardy was saddened by effect of the industrial revoluti...

Wagtail and Baby Annotated

A baby watched a ford, whereto
A wagtail came for drinking;
A blaring bull went wading through,
The wagtail showed no shrinking.

A stallion splashed his way across,
The birdie nearly sinking;
He gave his plumes a twitch and toss,
And held his own unblinking.

Next saw the baby round the spot
A mongrel slowly slinking;
The wagtail gazed, but faltered not
In dip and sip and prinking.

A perfect gentleman then neared;
The wagtail, in a winking,
With terror rose and disappeared;
The baby fell a-thinking.

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