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'TWAS a death bed summons and forth I went	A
By the way of the Western Wall so drear	B
On that winter night and sought a gate	C
The home by Fate	C
Of one I had long held dear	B
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And there as I paused by her tenement	D
And the trees shed on me their rime and hoar	B
I thought of the man who had left her lone	E
Him who made her his own	E
When I loved her long before	B
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The rooms within had the piteous shine	F
The home things wear which the housewife miss	G
From the stairway floated the rise and fall	H
Of an infant's call	H
Whose birth had brought her to this	G
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Her life was the price she would pay for that whine	F
For a child by the man she did not love	I
But let that rest forever I said	J
And bent my tread	J
To the chamber up above	I
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She took my hand in her thin white own	E
And smiled her thanks though nigh too weak	K
And made them a sign to leave us there	B
Then faltered ere	B
She could bring herself to speak	K
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'Twas to see you before I go he'll condone	E
Such a natural thing now my time's not much	L
When Death is so near it hustles hence	M
All passioned sense	M
Between woman and man as such	L
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My husband is absent As heretofore	B
The City detains him But in truth	N
He has not been kind I will speak no blame	O
But the child is lame	O
O I pray she may reach his ruth	N
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Forgive past days I can say no more	B
Maybe if we'd wedded you'd now repine	E
But I treated you ill I was punished Farewell	P
Truth shall I tell	P
Would the child were yours and mine	E
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As a wife I was true But such my unease	Q
That could I insert a deed back in Time	R
I'd make her yours to secure your care	B
And the scandal bear	B
And the penalty for the crime	R
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When I had left and the swinging trees	Q
Rang above me as lauding her candid say	S
Another was I Her words were enough	T
Came smooth came rough	T
I felt I could live my day	S
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Next night she died and her obsequies	S
In the Field of Tombs by the Via renowned	U
Had her husband's heed His tendance spent	A
I often went	A
And pondered by her mound	U
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All that year and the next year whiled	U
And I still went thitherward in the gloam	V
But the Town forgot her and her nook	W
And her husband took	W
Another Love to his home	V
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And the rumor flew that the lame lone child	U
Whom she wished for its safety child of mine	E
Was treated ill when offspring came	O
Of the new made dame	O
And marked a more vigorous line	E
	-
A smarter grief within me wrought	U
Than even at loss of her so dear	B
Dead the being whose soul my soul suffused	U
Her child ill used	U
I helpless to interfere	B
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One eve as I stood at my spot of thought	U
In the white stoned Garth brooding thus her wrong	X
Her husband neared and to shun his view	Y
By her hallowed mew	Y
I went from the tombs among	Z
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To the Cirque of the Gladiators which faced	U
That haggard mark of Imperial Rome	V
Whose Pagan echoes mock the chime	R
Of our Christian time	R
It was void and I inward clomb	R
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Scarce had night the sun's gold touch displaced	U
From the vast Rotund and the neighboring dead	U
When her husband followed bowed half passed	U
With lip upcast	U
Then halting sullenly said	U
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It is noised that you visit my first wife's tomb	R
Now I gave her an honored name to bear	B
While living when dead So I've claim to ask	A2
By what right you task	A2
My patience by vigiling there	B
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There's decency even in death I assume	R
Preserve it sir and keep away	S
For the mother of my first born you	Y
Show mind undue	Y
Sir I've nothing more to say	S
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A desperate stroke discerned I then	E
God pardon or pardon not the lie	B2
She had sighed that she wished lest the child should pine	E
Of slights 'twere mine	E
So I said But the father I	B2
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That you thought it yours is the way of men	E
But I won her troth long ere your day	S
You learnt how in dying she summoned me	R
'Twas in fealty	R
Sir I've nothing more to say	S
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Save that if you'll hand me my little maid	U
I'll take her and rear her and spare you toil	C2
Think it more than a friendly act none can	E
I'm a lonely man	E
While you've a large pot to boil	C2
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If not and you'll put it to ball or blade	U
To night to morrow night anywhen	E
I'll meet you here But think of it	U
And in season fit	U
Let me hear from you again	E
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Well I went away hoping but nought I heard	U
Of my stroke for the child till there greeted me	R
A little voice that one day came	R
To my window frame	R
And babbled innocently	R
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My father who's not my own sends word	U
I'm to stay here sir where I belong	X
Next a writing came Since the child was the fruit	U
Of your passions brute	U
Pray take her to right a wrong	X
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And I did And I gave the child my love	I
And the child loved me and estranged us none	E
But compunctions loomed for I'd harmed the dead	U
By what I'd said	U
For the good of the living one	E
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Yet though God wot I am sinner enough	T
And unworthy the woman who drew me so	S
Perhaps this wrong for her darling's good	U
She forgives or would	U
If only she could know	S

Thomas Hardy

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