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a wife in london (december 1899) by thomas hardy - richard mitchley lyrics

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i * the tragedy

she sits in the tawny vapour
that the thames*side lanes have uprolled
behind whose webby fold*on*fold
like a waning taper
the street*lamp glimmers cold

a messenger’s knock cracks smartly
flashed news in her hand
of meaning it dazes to understand
though shaped so shortly:
he—he has fallen—in the far south land…

ii * the irony

’tis the morrow; the fog hangs thicker
the postman nears and goes:
a letter is brought whose lines disclosе
by the firelight fl!cker
his hand, whom thе worm now knows:

fresh—firm—penned in highest feather—
page*full of his hoped return
and of home*planned jaunts of brake and burn
in the summer weather
and of new love that they would learn

- richard mitchley lyrics

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