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Thomas Hardy - Amabel

2014-11-07 12 Dailymotion

I MARKED her ruined hues, <br /> Her custom-straitened views, <br /> And asked, "Can there indwell <br /> My Amabel?" <br /> <br /> I looked upon her gown, <br /> Once rose, now earthen brown; <br /> The change was like the knell <br /> Of Amabel. <br /> <br /> Her step's mechanic ways <br /> Had lost the life of May's; <br /> Her laugh, once sweet in swell, <br /> Spoilt Amabel. <br /> <br /> I mused: "Who sings the strain <br /> I sang ere warmth did wane? <br /> Who thinks its numbers spell <br /> His Amabel?"-- <br /> <br /> Knowing that, though Love cease, <br /> Love's race shows undecrease; <br /> All find in dorp or dell <br /> An Amabel. <br /> <br /> --I felt that I could creep <br /> To some housetop, and weep, <br /> That Time the tyrant fell <br /> Ruled Amabel! <br /> <br /> I said (the while I sighed <br /> That love like ours had died), <br /> "Fond things I'll no more tell <br /> To Amabel, <br /> <br /> "But leave her to her fate, <br /> And fling across the gate, <br /> 'Till the Last Trump, farewell, <br /> O Amabel!'"<br /><br />Thomas Hardy<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/amabel/

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