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I	A
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When of tender mind and body	B
I was moved by minstrelsy	C
And that strain The Bridge of Lodi	A
Brought a strange delight to me	B
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II	A
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In the battle breathing jingle	D
Of its forward footing tune	E
I could see the armies mingle	D
And the columns cleft and hewn	E
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III	A
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On that far famed spot by Lodi	A
Where Napoleon clove his way	F
To his fame when like a god he	B
Bent the nations to his sway	F
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IV	-
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Hence the tune came capering to me	B
While I traced the Rhone and Po	G
Nor could Milan's Marvel woo me	B
From the spot englamoured so	G
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V	B
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And to day sunlit and smiling	H
Here I stand upon the scene	I
With its saffron walls dun tiling	H
And its meads of maiden green	I
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VI	-
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Even as when the trackway thundered	J
With the charge of grenadiers	G
And the blood of forty hundred	K
Splashed its parapets and piers	G
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VII	-
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Any ancient crone I'd toady	K
Like a lass in young eyed prime	L
Could she tell some tale of Lodi	K
At that moving mighty time	L
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VIII	-
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So I ask the wives of Lodi	K
For traditions of that day	K
But alas not anybody	K
Seems to know of such a fray	K
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IX	G
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And they heed but transitory	K
Marketings in cheese and meat	K
Till I judge that Lodi's story	K
Is extinct in Lodi's street	K
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X	G
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Yet while here and there they thrid them	M
In their zest to sell and buy	K
Let me sit me down amid them	M
And behold those thousands die	K
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XI	K
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Not a creature cares in Lodi	K
How Napoleon swept each arch	N
Or where up and downward trod he	K
Or for his memorial March	N
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XII	K
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So that wherefore should I be here	O
Watching Adda lip the lea	K
When the whole romance to see here	O
Is the dream I bring with me	K
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XIII	K
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And why sing The Bridge of Lodi	K
As I sit thereon and swing	H
When none shows by smile or nod he	K
Guesses why or what I sing	H
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XIV	-
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Since all Lodi low and head ones	K
Seem to pass that story by	K
It may be the Lodi bred ones	K
Rate it truly and not I	K
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XV	-
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Once engrossing Bridge of Lodi	K
Is thy claim to glory gone	P
Must I pipe a palinody	K
Or be silent thereupon	Q
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XVI	-
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And if here from strand to steeple	D
Be no stone to fame the fight	K
Must I say the Lodi people	D
Are but viewing crime aright	K
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XVII	-
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Nay I'll sing The Bridge of Lodi	K
That long loved romantic thing	H
Though none show by smile or nod he	K
Guesses why and what I sing	H

Thomas Hardy

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